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Alumni  Monthl 


March  1992 


ENCHANTED   EVENINGS 

Ladd  Observatory  turns  100 


A  Car  So  Refined  It 
And  Lets  You  Ou 


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pair  not.  In  this  age  oi  rough 


manners  and  lioorMi  l>elia\- 
ior,  you  can  still  find  a  haven  oi 
grace  and  sophistication:  the  cabin 
of  the  IMOO 

Iuxut)  sedan. 

Everything 

found  within 

has  been  designed  not  only  to  meet 

vour  needs  but  to  anticipate  them. 
For  example,  when  you  are 

readv  to  leave  the  cabin,  the  car  will 
neatly  execute 
a  point  of  eti- 
quette: auto- 
matically (if 
you  choose) 
the  steering 
wheel  column 

will  raise  itself  up  and  out  of  your  way 

as  soon  as  you  remove  the  kev. 
But  what  goes  up 

must  come  down.  YA  hen 

vou  enter  the  cabin,  the 


column  will  lower  itself  into  your 

hands  to  its  precise  pre-set  position 
the  moment  you  insert  the  key 

Of  course,  all  this  discussion 
about  entering  and  leaving  should  not 
distract  you  from  the  subject  ol  driv- 
ing. Onlv  that  experience  is  hard  to 
capture  on  paper.  To  try  to  somehow 
tabulate  the  serenity  and  quiet  of  the 
well-appointed  cabin  will  not  do  the 
LS  400  justice. 

So  for  a  test  drive,  see  your 
dealer.  He  will  answer  your  ques- 
tions, wait  patiently  for  your  com- 
ments, show  you  every  courtesy. 

See?  Chivalry  is  not  dead. 


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Volume  92,  Number  6 
March  1992 


Brown  Alumni  Monthly 


Six  Days  on  Pawleys  Island 


20 


A  crew  of  students  helps  repair  an  elderly  man's 
run-down  house  in  a  poor  community  on  the  South 
Carolina  coast.  Their  journal  entries  tell  more  about 
safeguarding  human  dignity  and  pride  than  about 
fixing  floor  joists  and  plumbing. 


Night  Fare  on  Thayer  Street 

Josiah's  is  a  familiar  name,  but  there  is  nothing  old- 
fashioned  about  Brown's  neon-decorated  snack  bar. 


For  Thirteen  Days  in  1962. 


33 


Just  how  close  did  the  world  come  to  nuclear  war 
in  October  1962?  Evidence  revealed  at  a  Brown- 
sponsored  U.S. -Russia-Cuba  conference  shows  that 
the  crisis  was  far  more  dangerous  than  President 
Kennedy's  advisors  ever  knew. 


Enchanted  Evenings 

Ladd  Observatory  turns  100,  and  on  Wednesday 
nights  crowds  are  still  turning  out  to  witness  the 
timeless  magic  of  the  stars. 


Departments 

Carrying  the  Mail 

4 

Under  the  Elms 

8 

Sports 

16 

Books 

47 

The  Classes 

48 

Alumni  Calendar 

54 

Obituaries 

57 

Finally 

60 

Cover:  A  waxing  crescent  moon  is  framed  bv 
the  telescope  and  opening  in  the  dome  of 
Ladd  Observatory  (at  sunset,  about  5:25  p.m.). 
Photographs  bv  John  Foraste. 


Brown 

Alumni  Monthly 

March  1992 
Volume  92,  No.  6 


Editor 

Robert  M.  Rhodes 

Managing  Editor 
Anne  Hinman  Diffily  '73 

Art  Director 
Kathryn  de  Boer 

Assistant  Editor 

Charlotte  Bruce  Harvey  '78 

Editorial  Associate 
James  Reinbold  '74  A.M. 

Contributing  Writer 

Bruce  Fellman  '72 
Joanna  Norland  '94 

Design 

Sandra  Delany 

Susan  Harrington 

Katie  Chester 

Sandra  Kenney 

Administrative  Assistant 

Pamela  M.  Parker 


Carrying  the  Mail 


Board  of  Editors 

Chairman 

James  Geehan  '45 

Vice  Chairman 

Stacy  E.  Palmer  '82 

Ralph  J.  Begleiter  '71 
Peter  W.  Bernstein  '73 
Philip  J.  Bray  '48 
Douglas  O.  dimming  '80  A.M. 
Rose  E.  Engelland  '78 
Lisa  W.  Foderaro  '85 

Annette  Grant  '63 

Martha  K.  Matzke  '66 

Gail  E.  McCann  '75 

Cathleen  M.  McGuigan  '71 

Kirk  A.  Scharfenberg  '65 

Tenold  R.  Sunde  '59 

Matthew  L.  Wald  '76 

Jill  Zuckman  '87 


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Address  Correction  Requested 


Howard  Swearer 

Editor.  I  have  often  retold  the  story  of  a 
friend  freshman  year  who  was  lost  find- 
ing a  class.  A  tweedy  man  asked  where 
she  was  going  and  offered  to  lead  her 
there.  He  inquired  how  she  liked  Brown 
so  far  and  she  answered  with  a  long  list 
of  homesick  complaints.  The  man  lis- 
tened sympathetically  and  when  they 
reached  their  destination,  my  friend 
introduced  herself.  The  man  shook  her 
hand,  introduced  himself  as  Howard 
Swearer,  and  walked  away  chuckling  at 
her  stunned  expression. 

That  was  the  great  thing  about  hav- 
ing Howard  Swearer  as  our  college 
president.  It  was  the  wry  way  he 
ducked  boasting  about  Brown  alumni 
when  the  "Today"  show  came  to  cam- 
pus. It  was  the  wav  he  blithely  pro- 
nounced "Sedete  laureati"  Kansas-style. 
It  was,  in  short,  that  he  was  the  cool  col- 
lege president.  We  were  proud  to  have 
him.  And  we  are  terribly  sad  he  was 
taken  from  us. 

Susanna  Hill  '87 

Boston 


The  $8-Million  Question 

Editor:  Anne  Diffilv's  number-filled 
article,  "The  $8-Million  Question" 
(November  199J),  contained  at  least  one 
incorrect  one.  She  states:  "For  example, 
only  nineteen  juniors  and  seniors  were 
majoring  in  physics  last  year  .  .  .".  Per- 
haps she  confused  some  of  her  tabula- 
tions since,  at  Commencement  this  past 
June  alone,  I  handed  out  diplomas  to 
nineteen  seniors.  They,  when  combined 
with  the  juniors  of  that  same  academic 


year,  total  thirty-nine  -  not  nineteen. 

She  may  also  be  unaware  that  there 
are  a  variety  of  phvsics  concentration 
programs:  physics-mathematics,  phy- 
sics-engineering, physics-geology,  as 
well  as  astronomy-astrophysics.  Per- 
haps she  missed  them. 

We  have  one  of  the  largest  and  best- 
funded  graduate  programs  in  the  Uni- 
versity. Interestingly,  this  research  pro- 
gram has  an  important  impact  upon  the 
undergraduates,  many  of  whom  partici- 
pate in  the  research  often  as  early  as 
their  sophomore,  and  occasionally 
freshman,  year.  Indeed,  it  is  those  stu- 
dents who  in  large  percentage  go  on  to 
graduate  schools  themselves.  This  is  an 
important  point  which  should  not  be 
overlooked  as  the  nation  tries  to  restore 
its  competitiveness  in  an  era  when  sci- 
ence education  in  the  U.S.  has  fallen  to  a 
new  low. 

Robert  E.  Lanou,  Jr. 

Chairman,  Department  of  Physics 
Academic  statistics  for  the  article  were  sup- 
plied b\/  the  Offices  of  the  Provost  and  of  the 
Registrar.  -  Editor 


Editor:  "The  $8-Million  Question"  was  a 
pleasant  surprise.  Twenty  years  ago  I 
served  briefly  as  an  alumni  trustee  and 
made  the  mistake  of  asking  questions 
about  the  business  of  running  Brown.  In 
vain  did  I  request  financial  statements. 
Several  years  later  a  full  trustee  ob- 
tained them  for  me;  thev  showed  me 
that  the  University  was  headed  for  trou- 
ble, but  bv  then  I  had  given  up  hope  of 
influencing  its  affairs.  Your  article 
expressed  my  thoughts  about  the  prob- 
lems of  Brown  and  solutions  that 
should  be  considered. 


4  /  MARCH    1«4- 


Most  of  my  career  has  been  spent 

doing  workouts:  temporarily  managing 
sick  companies  until  they  worked  out 
their  problems.  The  common  denomina- 
tor of  all  mv  clients  was  overexpansion. 
They  attempted  to  do  more  than  they 
were  capable  of  doing.  In  all  cases, 
lenders  seeking  to  sell  money  goaded 
the  companies  on  to  expand  even  when 
they  lacked  an  overall  plan  or  the  per- 
sonnel to  carry  it  out.  Successful  perfor- 
mance of  my  job  required  identifying 
those  areas  where  my  clients  did  well 
and  focusing  their  efforts  on  those 
areas. 

No  one  has  the  resources  to  do 
everything,  and  lasting  success  comes 
from  doing  a  few  things  well  rather 
than  attempting  to  do  a  little  of  every- 
thing. Progress  requires  that  new  pro- 
jects and  approaches  to  the  needs  of 
society  be  tried.  You  should  be  willing 
to  try  anything  but  you  must  stop  when 
they  fail  to  achieve  their  goals  in  order 
to  provide  resources  to  try  other  new 
ideas.  Stopping  a  project  is  difficult  to 
do  because  any  activity  has  its  propo- 
nents, and  they  seldom  accept  that  it  is 
not  successful.  This  is  why  we  have 
executives:  to  make  unpleasant  decisions. 

I  thank  you  for  your  articles  and 
wish  President  Gregorian  and  his  man- 
agement team  luck  in  his  workout  of 
Brown  University. 

Lombard  Rice  '50 

Sacramento,  Calif. 


Lessons  from  overseas 

Editor:  Ms.  Sheffield's  excellent  article, 
"The  'gentle  wholeness'  of  home" 
(Finally,  November),  evoked  flashes  of 
recognition,  having  also  worked  in 
Africa  for  six  years  before  returning  to 
my  familv  home.  I  wonder  if  she  would 
agree  with  the  following  observations. 

Noticing  less  culture  shock  in  rural 
areas,  I  concluded  West  African  coun- 
try-folk had  more  in  common  with  their 
rural  counterparts  in  India  and  Arkan- 
sas than  with  their  own  urban  compatri- 
ots. Conversely,  discounting  influences 
of  American  media,  living  in  rural  New 
Hampshire  is  more  congruent  with 
West  African  village  life  than  life  in  a 
large  American  city. 

The  best  preparation  for  deaths  in 
my  own  family  came  from  the  example 
of  my  overseas  friends.  Births,  mar- 
riages, christenings,  agings,  sicknesses, 
mental  illness  were  all  approached  in  a 


more  familv  and  community-oriented 
fashion  than  in  the  U.S.  I  believe  the 
I  nited  States  is  humanity's  experiment 
in  unbridled  individualism.  The  out- 
come ol  this  experiment  is  uncertain  at 
best  -  the  domestic  \  tolence  and  insani- 
ty chronicled  in  the  daily  news  are  signs 
the  experiment  is  not  going  well. 

In  retrospect,  I  feel  I  learned  more 
from  my  years  overseas  than  from 
schooling  in  the  States.  Daily  I  use 
lessons  learned  in  the  rice  paddies  and 
chief's  compounds  on  how  to  deal  with 
people.  I  mean  this  in  a  non-pejorative 
way,  and  the  challenge  is  how  to  act  on 
this  with  my  own  children's  education. 

Peter  Menard  '73 

Epsom,  N.H. 


March  to  Tougaloo 

Editor:  1  just  wanted  to  say  that  it  was 
really  nice  to  see/read  the  BAM's  recent 
cover  story  (October)  on  Tougaloo  Col- 
lege. 

It  certainly  brought  back  a  lot  of 
memories  from  my  semester  there  in  the 
fall  of  '89,  my  final  semester  as  an 
undergraduate. 

Tougaloo,  like  Brown,  is  very  sim- 
ply, a  very  special  place.  I  encourage 
anyone  and  everyone  -  especially  you 
undergrads  -  to  let  Tougaloo  become  a 
part  of  you  -  let  it  touch  your  heart  and 
soul  and  mind. 

Tougaloo  taught  me  a  zillion  things 
about  life  and  my  place  in  it;  it  also 
taught  me  that  in  all  types  of  peoples 
there  are  all  types  of  people.  Reallv 
basic,  veah,  but  we  all  need  to  be 
reminded  of  that  every  so  often.  Long 
live  Tougaloo.  Long  live  Brown.  Long 
live  Tougaloo  and  Brown. 

Joey  Chase  '89 

San  Francisco 
P.S.  I  concentrated  in  English  and 
American  literature  and  Afro-American 
studies. 


Media's  'propensity  to 
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thesis  of  the  letters  by  Brian  Palmer  and 
Jim  Tull  (BAM,  November)  that  the 
American  media  was  manipulated  into 
presenting  a  patriotic  and  sanitized  ver- 
sion of  the  war  against  Iraq,  their  com- 
plaints about  this  are  too  simplistic. 
The  major  media  is  not  objective.  It 


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takes  sides  on  most  major  issues  and 
often  gives  skewed  versions  of  the 
news.  Reports  of  events  and  viewpoints 
by  CBS,  NBC,  ABC,  CNN,  PBS,  Time, 
Newsweek,  the  Neiu  York  Times,  the  Wash- 
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similar  as  to  be  interchangeable.  Thus, 
during  the  war  in  Lebanon  in  1982,  the 
media  was  pro-PLO  and  anti-Israel  (as 
it  is  today).  It  was  pro-Sandinista  and 
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Various  techniques  to  manipulate 
the  news  are  used  by  the  press  and  TV, 
ranging  from  use  of  language  ("Occu- 
pied Arab  Territory,"  "Pro-choice,  anti- 
abortion")  to  partial  or  total  censorship 
of  one  view,  to  careful  selection  of 
events  depicted,  quotes  selected  and 
interviews  granted,  to  half-truths  and 
falsification.  Television  views  world 
events  as  a  story  with  good  guys  and 
bad  guys.  One  includes  what  fits  the 
story  line  and  leaves  out  what  doesn't. 
Newspapers  provide  more  detail,  but 
most  of  the  editors  and  writers  on  major 
newspapers  share  the  same  liberal  ideo- 
logical outlook  as  their  TV  colleagues. 
John  Corry,  the  TV  critic  for  the  Neio 
York  Times,  called  them  the  "dominant 
intellectual  culture."  They  set  the  agenda. 

As  the  Israelis  discovered  in 
Lebanon  and  the  Americans  in  Vietnam, 
a  democracy  cannot  sustain  a  war  in  the 
face  of  a  hostile  media.  The  British  con- 
trolled the  media  during  the  war  in  the 
Falklands  and  the  Americans  did  the 
same  during  the  invasion  (?) /liberation 


(?)  of  Grenada.  When  the  media  com- 
plained about  this,  one  official  said, 
"When  you  fight  a  war,  you  don't  take 
the  enemy  with  you." 

When  covering  the  war  with  Iraq  - 
as  with  other  major  events  -  the  Ameri- 
can media  would  either  be  pro-Ameri- 
can or  anti-American.  Since  the  media 
generally  takes  the  side  of  the  perceived 
underdog,  it  may  very  well  have  turned 
against  the  U.S.  military.  If  the  media 
were  given  free  range  and  covered  the 
horror  of  war,  beaming  dead  bodies  and 
mass  destruction  to  our  living  rooms 
every  night,  we  would  not  have  been 
able  to  sustain  the  war.  Saddam  Hus- 
sein would  be  ruling  Kuwait  (and  prob- 
ably Saudi  Arabia),  controlling  the 
world's  oil  supplies,  armed  with  nucle- 
ar and  chemical  weapons,  ready  to 
destroy  Israel  and  anyone  else  in  the 
area  who  stood  in  his  way.  Or  if  we  had 
to  fight  a  "cleaner"  war,  many  more 
American  lives  would  have  been  lost  as 
happened  to  the  Israelis  in  Lebanon. 
The  Pentagon  simply  could  not  take  the 
chance.  It  chose  to  control  and  sanitize 
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6  /  MARCH   1492 


ed,  jingoistic  view  of  the  war.  This  is 
unfortunate,  but  the  alternative  was 
worse. 

The  primary  blame  for  this  situation 
lies  with  the  media  because  of  its  lack  of 
objectivity  and  its  propensity  to  choose 
sides  and  misrepresent  the  news. 

Peter  E.  Goldman  '60 

Brooklyn 
77ii-  writer  wrote  the  video  documentary, 
"NBC  In  Lebanon:  A  Study  of  Media  Mis- 
representation" ( 19S3),  and  was  co-editor  of 
the  hook,  The  Media's  War  Against  Israel 
(Steimatzky/Shapolsky,1986). 


I  was  there! 

Editor:  What  a  surprise,  on  reading  the 
class  notes  on  my  class's  50th  reunion 
(BAM,  September),  to  discover  that  my 
wife  and  I  had  not  attended  the 
reunion! 

It's  amazing  what  pleasant 
memories  one  can  have  of  a  reunion 
that  he  apparently  did  not  attend. 

Everett  I.  Daniels  '41 

Los  Angeles 
The  names  of  those  attending  the  '41 
reunion  were  provided  by  the  class.  On  the 
list  provided  the  BAM,  the  Daniels  were 
listed  as  "cancelled-?"  We  regret  that  they 
-were  omitted.  -  Editor. 


Special  Olympics 

Editor:  I  would  like  to  invite  you  to  the 
wonderful  world  of  Special  Olympics. 
Active  in  over  110  countries  with  nearly 
1,500,000  athletes  worldwide,  Special 
Olympics  is  providing  a  wealth  of 
opportunities  to  people  of  all  ages  with 
mental  retardation.  Special  Olympics, 
through  qualitv  sports  training  and 
competitions,  brings  a  more  indepen- 
dent, productive  and  happy  life  for  all 
individuals  with  mental  retardation. 

As  a  Brown  alum  and  executive 
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/   MARCH   1992 


The  changing  face  of  the  curriculum: 

Dean  Blumstein  proposes  a  new 

general  education  plan 


"^**-    ^~ 


In  December,  Dean  of  the 
College  Sheila  Blumstein 
presented  to  the  faculty  her 
proposal  for  a  University 
Courses  Program,  a  rethink- 
ing of  the  general  education 
portion  of  Brown's  under- 
graduate curriculum.  Blum- 
stein says  her  aim  was  to 
find  "a  creative  way  to  pro- 
vide students  with  more 
structure  without  making 
requirements." 

Faculty  response  has 
been  positive,  she  says,  and 
she  plans  to  implement  the 
program  with  next  year's 
course  catalogue  and  the 
Guide  to  Liberal  Learning, 
which  is  distributed  each 
year  to  help  students  think 
through  their  academic 
goals. 

The  University  Courses 
Program  "is  descriptive,  not 
prescriptive,"  Blumstein 
emphasizes.  The  new  pro- 
gram is  basically  a  list  of 
250  recommended  courses, 
which  Blumstein  and  her 
staff  selected  from  existing 
course  offerings  with  the 
help  of  department  heads, 
interwoven  with  a  long  essay 
on  the  goals  and  components 
of  a  liberal  education. 

It  is  not  a  "one-from-col- 
umn-A,  two-from-column- 
B"  list  such  as  the  distribu- 
tion requirements  at  many 
schools.  Blumstein  wants 
students  to  sit  down  with 
their  faculty  advisors  and 


really  think  about  the  kinds 
of  reasoning  skills,  argu- 
mentative skills,  and  types 
of  issues  and  knowledge 
they  want  to  master  in 
school,  and  then  to  select 
courses  with  those  goals  in 
mind.  Rather  than  saying 
"study  history,"  for  in- 
stance, the  guide  stresses 
the  importance  of  studying 
"civilizations  and  cultures 
that  are  different  from  one's 
own,"  looking  at  the  "his- 
torical, philosophical,  and 
scientific  traditions  that 
have  shaped  the  civiliza- 
tions of  the  world." 

The  guide  encourages 
students  to  study  the  histo- 
ry and  culture  of  the  United 
States.  The  section  on  the 
sciences  suggests  learning 
something  about  the  human 
organism,  the  natural 
world,  and  technology  and 
scientific  modeling.  Other 
suggested  areas  of  study 
include  ethics,  the  creative 
arts,  and  mathematics  and 
symbolic  languages.  For 
each  of  these,  the  guidelines 
will  list  relevant  courses, 
selected  because  of  their 
emphasis  on  synthesis. 

The  courses  are  primari- 
ly introductory  in  nature, 
with  no  prerequisites,  but 
Blumstein  plans  to  add 
more  advanced  courses. 
Many  are  interdisciplinary, 
drawn  from  Modes  of 
Thought,  Foundations,  Spe- 


Dean  Sheila  Blumstein, 

above;  left,  a  familiar 

warm-weather  scene 

on  the  Green  near  George 

Street:  Professor  of 

Religious  Studies 

Giles  Milhaven  confers 

with  a  student. 


cial  Themes  and  Topics,  and 
other  non-departmental 
offerings,  while  others  are 
in  traditional  disciplines. 

All  of  the  new  Universi- 
ty Courses  require  active 
involvement  on  the  student's 
part,  with  the  emphasis  on 
writing  papers  or  present- 
ing reports.  "A  course  that 
fully  met  our  intellectual 
expectations  about  general 
education  but  assigned 
three  exams  would  not  meet 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  9 


the  requirement/'  Blumstein 
says.  "I've  called  some 
departments  and  said,  'We'd 
love  to  have  your  course,  but 
would  you  be  willing  to 
assign  some  writing  or  some 
exercises  or  problem  sets?'  " 

The  impetus  behind  the 
new  program  came 
in  part  from  the  1987  report 
by  the  Daniel  Yankelovich 
Group,  which  surveyed 
alumni  -  the  classes  of  1973 
through  1985  -  who  had 
studied  since  the  1969  imple- 
mentation of  the  New  Cur- 
riculum. The  report  found 
that  while  many  alumni 


During  Orientation  last  fall, 
a  freshman  meets  with 

his  faculty  advisor, 
Associate  Professor  of 
English  Stephen  Foley. 


loved  Brown's  indepen- 
dence (35  percent)  and  flexi- 
ble structure  (44  percent), 
others  (37  percent)  would 
have  liked  more  structure. 
Choosing  among  the  1,800 
courses  available  to  under- 
graduates can  be  over- 
whelming, Blumstein  says, 
and  since  taking  over  as  dean 
in  1987,  she  has  wanted  to 
strengthen  that  aspect  of 
Brown's  curriculum. 

Shortly  after  Vartan 
Gregorian  arrived,  he  asked 
Blumstein  to  review  the 
then-twenty-year-old  Brown 
Curriculum.  After  a  year- 
long study,  she  issued  a 
report  pronouncing  the  cur- 
riculum in  good  shape 
(Under  the  Elms,  March 
1990).  She  was  pleased  with 
undergraduate  concentration 
programs,  which  she  said 
gave  students  solid,  in-depth 
study.  She  was  convinced 
that  Brown  was  strong  on 


the  "rigor"  count,  too.  And 
she  was  satisfied  that  Brown 
was  teaching  students  to 
write  competently. 

At  a  time,  however, 
when  other  universities 
were  turning  back  to  core 
curricula  and  distribution 
requirements,  Brown  was 
being  widely  criticized  for 
the  freedom  it  gave  students. 
Contrary  to  what  Brown's 
critics  charged,  Blumstein 
found  that  the  vast  majority 
of  Brown  students  were  vol- 
untarily selecting  their 
courses  broadly  (more  than 
90  percent  taking  two  cours- 
es each  in  the  sciences,  hu- 
manities, and  social  sciences; 
84  percent  taking  three 
courses  in  each  area;  and  75 
percent  taking  four). 

She  was  concerned, 
though,  that  Brown  was  not 
giving  students  enough 
guidance  to  think  through  a 
coherent  plan  for  their  four 


years.  Even  good  faculty 
advisors  could  not  be  ex- 
pected to  know  all  the 
courses  in  the  catalogue, 
and  most,  she  says,  are  like- 
ly to  know  only  their  own 
department  and  one  or  two 
others.  Blumstein  wanted  to 
give  students  and  their 
advisors  a  framework  for 
setting  goals.  The  1990 
report  recommended  that 
Brown  implement  a  general 
education  program  for  all 
undergraduates.  The  trick 
was  to  provide  the  structure 
without  diminishing  stu- 
dents' responsibility  for 
shaping  their  own  program. 

"We  want  to  build  in 
self-reliance,"  Blumstein 
says,  "and  responsibility 
and  the  ability  to  make  in- 
formed decisions.  If  people 
are  spoon-fed  now,  what 
makes  you  think  that  at 
twenty-two  they're  going  to 
know  how  to  make  decisions 
when  they're  out  of  here?" 

Blumstein  stresses  that 
the  University  Courses  pro- 
gram is  but  one  way  to 
approach  a  liberal  education 
at  Brown.  All  of  the  Univer- 
sity Courses  are  also  listed 
in  the  course  catalogue 
under  their  departments. 
And,  she  notes  with  a  laugh, 
to  take  a  course  in  each  of 
the  suggested  areas  would 
take  a  lifetime.  She  hopes 
the  new  guidelines  will 
serve  as  a  starting,  not  an 
ending,  point. 

To  those  who  worry  that 
the  University  Courses  Pro- 
gram may  be  the  first  step 
toward  a  core  curriculum  or 
one  based  on  distribution 
requirements,  Blumstein 
simply  says,  "Trust  me.  I 
know  that  sounds  flip,  but 
there  is  no  way  -  over  my 
corpus  mortus,  or  whatever 
the  Latin  is  -  that  we  would 
ever  do  this.  People  should 
not  confuse  organizing 
choices  with  starting  a  re- 
quired curriculum."  -  C.B.H. 


10  /   MARCH  1992 


Teleconference  technology  links  Brown  and  a  Russian  university 


It's  an  eerie  sight,  espe- 
cially in  February.  With 
the  ground  half  covered  by 
ice  and  blown  snow,  the  six 
enormous  satellite  dishes 
and  tiny  pre-fab  work  shed 
look  like  something  out  of  a 
Tom  Clancy  novel  -  per- 
haps an  Arctic  outpost  mon- 
itoring enemy  transmissions. 
Each  electronic  ear  is  cocked 
to  pick  up  a  signal  from  a 
particular  communications 
satellite  high  above  the 
earth. 

Odder  still  is  the  ordi- 
nariness of  the  setting:  the 
strange  little  compound  is 
adjacent  to  the  athletic  fields, 
just  beneath  the  scoreboard. 

The  purpose  of  all  this 
equipment  belies  its  omi- 


nous appearance:  here  the 
Thomas  J.  Watson,  Jr.,  Insti- 
tute for  International  Stud- 
ies and  its  Center  for  For- 
eign Policy  Development 
(CFPD)  have  established 
the  first  video-teleconfer- 
encing link  between  Russian 
and  American  universities, 
connecting  researchers  at 
Brown  with  their  colleagues 
at  IKI,  the  Institute  for  Space 
Research  in  Moscow.  The 
utilitarian-looking  shed 
houses  a  miniaturized  broad- 
casting studio,  with  equip- 
ment to  videotape  meetings 
and  beam  the  compressed 
signal  up  to  a  communica- 
tions satellite,  then  down  to 
a  Moscow  studio  where 
the  signal  is  decompressed, 


viewed,  and  answered  -  all 
instantaneously. 

As  of  mid-February, 
according  to  the  project's 
director,  Uri  Bar-Zemer,  the 
teleconferencing  set-up  was 
nearly  ready  for  regular  use. 
Last  semester  he  and  other 
CFPD  staff  conducted  a 
series  of  test  runs.  In  one,  a 
group  of  planetary  geolo- 
gists on  campus  conferred 
with  Russian  colleagues 
with  whom  thev  conducted 
joint  research  throughout 
the  Cold  War  (BAM, 
September).  Students  in  a 
Russian  language  class 
talked  bv  satellite  with  stu- 
dents in  Moscow. 

Once,  while  a  test  was  in 
progress,  a  group  of  NATO 


Four  TV  monitors  cany  live 

broadcasts  via  Brown's 

downlink  satellite  dishes 

(clockwise  from 

top  left):  Israeli  evening 

news,  CNN,  TV  from 

Moscow,  C-Span. 


generals  strolled  into  the 
Moscow  studio  for  a  tour. 
Telling  this  story,  Bar- 
Zemer,  a  former  CNN  news 
producer  who  in  casual 
attire  resembles  a  charismatic 
but  slightly  disheveled  bear, 
looks  down  at  his  rumpled 
shirtsleeves  with  dismay:  "1 
was  dressed  like  this!"  he 
says,  laughing  ruefully. 
What  followed  was  an  im- 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  11 


promptu  conference  be- 
tween foreign  policy  devel- 
opment staff  and  the  gener- 
als. 

The  next  step,  Bar-Zemer 
says,  will  be  to  expand  the 
system  and  get  it  running 
full-time.  Deana  Arsenian, 
assistant  director  of  the  for- 
eign policy  center,  says  that 
Brown  applied  to  the  FCC 
for  a  broadcasting  license 
with  as  few  restrictions  as 
possible  to  allow  expansion. 
The  goal  is  to  make  the  pro- 


Uri  Bar-Zemer  is  manager  of 
satellite  operations  and 

director  of  the  international 
teleconferencing  project. 


ject  self-supporting,  allow- 
ing universities  and  other 
non-profits  to  use  the  sys- 
tem for  trans-Atlantic  con- 
ferences at  a  cost  substan- 
tially less  than  the  $3,200 
AT&T  or  Sprint  charges  for 
an  hour  of  dedicated  time  to 
Moscow.  Arsenian  says  the 
center  has  not  set  a  figure 
yet,  but  "it  will  be  more  like 
several  hundred  dollars  an 
hour."  Not  cheap,  but  it 
beats  the  cost  of  flying  to 
Moscow  for  a  day. 

The  program  currently 
operates  studios  at  Brown 
and  at  IK1.  The  plan  is  to 
add  more  studios  on  either 
end  and  to  begin  adding 
links  to  other  universities 
and  non-profits,  several  of 


which  have  already  ex- 
pressed interest,  Arsenian 
says.  Where  other  universi- 
ties can  link  to  Brown  by 
fiber-optic  telephone  lines, 
the  additional  sites  will 
cause  almost  no  time  delay, 
Bar-Zemer  says. 

The  teleconferencing 
project  grew  out  of  an  earli- 
er project,  in  which  Thomas 
J.  Watson,  Jr.  '37  donated  to 
Brown  the  cost  of  two  satel- 
lite antennae  so  that  faculty 
and  students  could  receive 
Soviet  television  broadcasts. 
Bar-Zemer  applied  for  the 
director's  job  and,  in  the 
process,  interested  then- 
president  Howard  Swearer 
in  the  idea  of  using  satellites 
not  only  to  pick  up  signals, 
but  to  communicate  as  well. 
Since  Brown  faculty  fre- 
quently work  with  col- 
leagues in  Russia,  and  the 
expense  and  time  commit- 
ment of  travel  are  so  great, 
a  video  link  appealed. 

Bar-Zemer  says  that 
Brown  was  ideally  located 
for  such  a  project,  since  it  is 
close  enough  to  the  Soviet 
satellites  tracking  the 
Hudson  River  to  follow 
them,  but  away  from  the 
electronic  noise  of  New 
York  and  Boston. 

CFPD  staff  interested 
colleagues  at  Moscow's  IKI 
in  the  project,  although  Bar- 
Zemer  says  the  Soviets  were 
initially  skeptical.  At  that 
time,  Soviet  technology 
wasn't  capable  of  compress- 
ing and  then  decompressing 
a  digitized  signal,  which 
meant  that  for  them  to  send 
the  vast  amount  of  data  in  a 
video  signal  would  take  up 
an  incredibly  large  (and 
expensive)  amount  of  band- 
width on  a  satellite.  Bar- 
Zemer  says  that  in  January 
1990,  when  Swearer  first 
proposed  the  idea  to  people 
from  the  Soviet  Academy 
and  Ministry  of  Communi- 
cations, "thev  said  it  was 
impossible,  that  it  defied  the 
laws  of  physics.  Obviously 


they  were  very  ruffled." 

Bar-Zemer  put  the  pro- 
ject together  on  a  shoestring 
budget,  getting  equipment 
for  free  or  on  loan,  whenev- 
er possible.  "I  buy  at  auc- 
tions," he  says.  "Up  to  this 
point  I've  been  really  stingy." 
His  studio  is,  quite  literally, 
a  pre-fab  twelve-by-sixteen- 
foot  shed,  "the  kind  you  put 
your  lawn  mower  in,"  he 
says.  Students  helped  insu- 
late and  drywall  it. 

Intersputnik,  an  interna- 
tional space  telecommunica- 
tions organization,  donated 
time  on  a  communications 
satellite.  Miralite  Communi- 
cations of  California  loaned 
the  sophisticated  electronics 
for  compressing  and  decom- 
pressing video  signals.  The 
Russians  supplied  ground 
stations  to  send  and  receive 
the  signals,  and  MCI  donat- 
ed a  communications  anten- 
na. Two  grants  from  the 
Carnegie  Corporation  pro- 
vided $225,000  in  seed 
money. 

The  project  has  not  been 
without  hitches,  Bar-Zemer 
says.  Interfacing  the  Russian 
ground  stations  with  Amer- 
ican technology  wras  diffi- 
cult, and  he  found  the  Sovi- 
et technology  outdated  and 
frustrating  to  work  with. 
Now  that  the  system  has 
proven  workable,  he  is  hir- 
ing a  second  person  to  help 
run  it,  and  is  prepared  to 
start  spending  to  upgrade 
equipment.  He  hopes  to  get 
a  twentv-four-hour  space  on 
Intersputnik's  satellite,  so 
teleconferences  can  be  held 
around  the  clock. 

As  he  stands  outside  his 
tool-shed  studio,  describing 
a  proposed  joint  project  on 
lunar  research,  he  points 
upward  toward  the  rising 
moon,  his  hand  surrounded 
by  a  host  of  pale  satellite 
dishes  in  the  waning  winter 
light.  "The  sky's  the  limit!" 
he  says,  chuckling  at  his 


pun. 


C.B.H. 


12  /  MARCH  1992 


-«i]G  H~A8 


Larry  Picerno's  death  ends  a  sixty-year  career 
in  the  Faunce  House  barbershop 


Faunce  House  barber 
Lawrence  "Larry" 
Picerno,  who  cut  the  hair  of 
generations  of  Brown  stu- 
dents, faculty,  and  staff, 
died  on  February  12  at  the 
age  of  seventy-nine.  He 
worked  almost  until  the  day 
of  his  death. 

Picerno  first  wielded  his 
barber's  scissors  at  Brown  in 
1932,  when  haircuts  were 
fifty  cents  and  the  Faunce 
House  barbershop  employed 
four  barbers  full-time.  The 


Providence  native  spent  his 
entire  career  in  the  basement 
shop  except  for  three  years  in 
the  Navy  in  World  War  II. 
(Even  in  the  service  he  con- 
tinued to  cut  hair;  one  of  his 
clients  was  Henry  Fonda.) 

He  followed  his  father, 
Angelo,  into  the  trade  at 
Brown.  The  elder  Picerno 
was  a  Brown  barber  for  sev- 
enteen years,  and  Larry 
joined  him  right  after  finish- 
ing high  school.  Later,  both 
Picerno's  wife  and  daughter 


worked  part-time  in  the  Stu- 
dent Union  office  in  Faunce 
House,  and  the  family  faith- 
fully attended  Brown  foot- 
ball games. 

A  1982  profile  in  the 
George  St.  lounhil  on  the 
occasion  of  Picerno's  fiftieth 
anniversary  at  Brown  men- 
tioned his  trademark:  short 
hair  cuts.  "Today's  boys 
don't  like  to  keep  'em  short 
-  not  by  rav  standards," 
Picerno  told  the  reporter. 
Nevertheless,  Picerno  never 


lacked  for  customers,  from 
students  looking  for  a  cheap 
cut  (they  had  gone  up  to  $7 
this  past  year  -  still  a  bar- 
gain compared  to  the  rates 
at  local  salons)  to  deans,  pro 
lessors,  and  a  succession  of 
Brown  presidents  and  local 
notables.  Professor  of  English 
Mark  Spilka  '49  began  hav- 
ing his  hair  cut  by  Picerno 
when  he  was  a  Brown  under- 
graduate in  the  1940s,  and 
remained  a  loyal  customer 
to  the  end.  Providence  May- 
or Vincent  A.  Cianci,  Jr.,  was 
a  Picerno  client  when  he  at- 
tended high  school  at  Moses 
Brown  in  the  early  1960s. 

In  the  last  ten  or  so  years, 
Larry  Picerno  was  the  sole 
barber  remaining  in  the 
basement  of  Faunce  House, 
and  his  quarters  had  shrunk 
to  a  closet-sized  room.  But 
he  was  a  steady,  reassuring 
presence,  and  a  reminder  of 
simpler  times.  Every  morn- 
ing Picerno  would  take  a 
bus  to  the  East  Side  from  his 
home  in  the  Mount  Pleasant 
section  of  Providence,  and 
every  afternoon  he'd  close 
up  at  2:30  and  return  home 
to  work  around  the  house 
or  in  his  garden.  His  shop 
was  something  of  a  time 
capsule  with  its  old  barber's 
chairs,  huge  mirrors,  a  radio 
playing  big-band  standards, 
and  the  never-changing 
shears  and  comb.  (Those  in 
search  of  styling  mousse 
and  blow-dryers  knew  to 
walk  past  Picerno's  shop  to 
Thayer  Street.) 

Larry  Picerno  loved  his 
job.  On  his  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary in  1982,  he  said,  "I  deal 
with  fine,  fine  people.  If  I 
were  unhappy,  I  would 
have  left  a  long  time  ago." 
Several  generations  of  fond 
customers  are  grateful  that 
he  didn't. 

Lawrence  Picerno  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Vincella, 
19  Loxlev  Road,  Providence, 
R.I.  02908;  and  a  daughter, 
Deborah  Subbarao  of  San 
Diego.  -A.D. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  13 


PEOPLE 


i 


Roberta  Bickford,  assistant  professor  of  the  history  of  art  and 
architecture,  was  awarded  this  year's  Wriston  Fellowship  in 
recognition  of  her  excellence  as  a  teacher.  The  fellowships  were 
created  to  reward  junior  faculty  with  exceptional  teaching 
ability  and  to  give  them  leave  time  to  use  on  scholarship.  The 
department's  first  expert  in  East  Asian  art,  Bickford  has  added 
classes  in  Chinese  and  Japanese  art  history;  she  will  use  her 
fellowship  to  research  twelfth-through-fourteenth-century 
Chinese  flower  and  bird  paintings. 

The  University  also  awarded  three  Wriston  Grants  this  year, 
designed  to  help  faculty  develop  new  courses.  Paul  Lockhart, 
assistant  professor  of  mathematics,  will  develop  an  intro- 
ductory math  course  aimed  at  liberal  artists.  Shepard  Krech  III, 
professor  of  anthropology,  will  use  his  grant  to  revise  an  inter- 
mediate-level course  on  Native  American  cultures.  William 
Warren,  associate  professor  of  cognitive  and  linguistic  sciences 
is  designing  a  new  interdiscioplinary  course  called  "Visions: 
Perception  and  Illusion  in  the  Visual  Arts."  Assistant  Professor 
of  East  Asian  Studies  Kikuko  Yamashita  will  develop  a  multi- 
media reading  program  in  Japanese  for  intermediate-  and 
advanced-level  language  students. 

The  Wriston  fellowships  and  grants  were  created  in  1972, 
with  a  grant  from  Thomas  J.  Watson,  Jr.,  to  recognize  the 
importance  of  creativity  among  the  faculty.  They  honor  the 
memory  of  former  Brown  President  Henry  Merritt  Wriston. 


In  January,  University  Professor  Martha  Nussbaum  spent  four 
days  at  the  University  of  Alabama  at  Birmingham,  where  she 
delivered  a  lecture,  "Serpents  in  the  Soul:  Love  and  Anger  in 
Seneca's  Medea,"  as  the  university's  first  Caroline  and  Charles 
W.  Ireland  Distinguished  Visiting  Scholar.  Nussbaum  also 
holds  professorships  in  classics,  philosophy,  and  comparative 
literature. 

Associate  Professor  of  Biology  Johanna  Schmitt  received  the 
National  Science  Foundation's  Faculty  Award  for  Women 
Scientists.  The  award  recognizes  her  achievements  as  a  teacher 
and  researcher  and  will  support  her  research  for  five  years. 

Donald  Wilmeth,  professor  of  theatre,  speech,  and  dance,  has 
been  named  to  the  editorial  board  of  a  new  journal,  American 
Drama,  published  at  the  University  of  Cincinnati's  Helen 
Weinberger  Center  for  the  Study  of  Drama  and  Playwriting. 

Paul  Phillips,  Brown  University  Orchestra  conductor  and 
music  director,  is  one  of  four  conductors  selected  by  the 
American  Symphony  Orchestra  League  to  participate  in  its 
American  Repertoire  Project  in  March.  The  four-dav  workshop 
will  be  held  in  Memphis,  and  will  culminate  in  a  concert  of 
works  by  American  composers,  at  which  Phillips  will  conduct 
the  Memphis  Symphony  Orchestra  in  a  performance  of  David 
Diamond's  Music  for  Shakespeare'*  Romeo  and  Juliet. 


Brown  gives  445  desks 
to  Providence  schools 


T 

■     here  are  only  so  many 
JL    things  you  can  do 
with  extra  desks,  especially 
when  you've  got  so  many  of 
them  -  say  445  -  that  you 
can't  find  storage  space. 
That's  the  position  Brown 
found  itself  in  last  semester. 
Staff  in  the  departments 
of  plant  operations  and 
stores  operations  put  their 
heads  together  and  came  up 
with  the  idea  of  giving  the 
desks  -  actually  they  call 
them  "tablet  armchairs"  -  to 
someone  who  needed  them 
more:  the  Providence  School 
Department.  On  December 
17,  school  department 
workers  came  by  to  pick  up 
the  first  load;  the  desks 
were  bound  for  classrooms 
at  Mount  Pleasant,  Hope, 
and  Central  High  Schools, 


where  they  replaced  broken 
furniture. 

How  did  such  a  surplus 
come  to  be?  Announcing  the 
gift,  Assistant  Vice  Presi- 
dent for  Facilities  Manage- 
ment Dorothy  Renaghan 
explained  that  "Brown 
maintains  an  inventory  of 
about  900  extra  chairs, 
[which  are  used]  several 
times  during  the  year  when- 
ever additional  writing 
desks  are  needed  -  during 
exams,  for  instance,  or  over 
Commencement  weekend." 

Over  the  past  few  years, 
Brown  has  renovated 
enough  old  classrooms  to 
increase  the  supply  of  extra 
desks  well  in  excess  of  the 
900  needed  for  contingen- 
cies. So,  back  to  high  school 
they  went.  -  C.B.H. 


Doug  Figueiredo,  manager  of  stores  operations, 
and  some  of  Brown's  surplus  desk  chairs. 


14/  MARCH  1992 


Who  has  the  big  bucks? 

Brown's  endowment  ranks  #29 

The  February  12  issue  of  The  Chronicle  of  Higher  Educa- 
tion listed  the  values  of  395  college  and  university 
endowments,  starting  at  the  top  with  Harvard,  whose 
endowment  totaled  more  than  $4.6  billion  as  of  June  31, 
1991.  Brown's,  by  contrast,  ranked  twenty-ninth,  totaling 
$431,444,000. 

Following  are  the  top  thirty  endowments  as  reported  by 
The  Chronicle. 


1 

Harvard  University 

$4,669,683,000 

2 

University  of  Texas  System 

$3,374,301,000 

3 

Princeton  University 

$2,624,082,000 

4 

Yale  University 

$2,566,680,000 

5 

Stanford  University 

$2,043,000,000 

6 

Columbia  University 

$1,525,904,000 

7 

Washington  University 

$1,442,616,000 

8 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology 

'  $1,442,526,000 

9 

Texas  A&M  University  System 

$1,395,454,000 

10 

Emory  University 

$1,289,630,000 

11 

Rice  University 

$1,140,044,000 

12 

University  of  Chicago 

$1,080,462,000 

13 

Northwestern  University 

$1,046,905,000 

14 

Cornell  University 

$    953,600,000 

15 

University  of  Pennsylvania 

$    825,601,000 

16 

University  of  Notre  Dame 

$   637,234,000 

17 

Vanderbilt  University 

$    613,207,000 

18 

Dartmouth  College 

$   594,582,000 

19 

New  York  University 

$    581,921,000 

20 

University  of  Rochester 

$    578,358,000 

21 

Johns  Hopkins  University 

$    561,433,000 

22 

Rockefeller  University 

$   535,865,000 

23 

California  Institute  of  Technology 

$    534,085,000 

24 

Duke  University 

$    527,635,000 

25 

University  of  Southern  California 

$    522,931,000 

26 

University  of  Virginia 

$    507,002,000 

27 

University  of  Michigan 

$    500,430,000 

28 

Case  Western  Reserve  University 

$    442,722,000 

29 

Brown  University 

$  431,444,000 

30 

Macalester  College 

$    390,024,000 

BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  15 


Sports 

By  James  Reinbold 


Women's  basketball's 

winning  philosophy: 

One  game  at  a  time 


Women's  basketball 
(7-1)  stands  atop 
the  Ivy  League  at  mid-sea- 
son. The  talented  starting 
five,  led  by  senior  captain 
Shonica  Tunstall  and  fresh- 
man center  Martina  Jerant, 
is  well  within  reach  of  last 
year's  record  total  of  nine- 
teen wins  -  the  team  is  16-4 
with  six  games  remaining. 


More  important,  it  is  in  a 
position  to  win  its  first  Ivy 
League  championship  since 
the  1984-85  campaign. 

Coach  Jean  Marie  Burr, 
in  her  fourth  year  as  head 
coach  of  women's  basket- 
ball, has  been  quietly  accu- 
mulating wins.  Her  coach- 
ing philosophy,  stated  with 
Shaker  simplicity,  is  one 


16  /  MARCH  1992 


game  at  a  time.  With  that 

and  Davidson. 

recent  years.  Before  Fuchs 

To  keep  pace  with  league- 

focus,  she  has  built  a  win- 

The sixteen  victories  in 

there  was  Maia  Baker  '90; 

leading  Princeton,  Brown 

ning  team.  In  her  first  three 

her  first  year  matched  the 

then  two  years  ago  it  was 

had  to  win  two.  They  were 

seasons,  Burr's  teams  have 

Brown  women's  basketball 

Shelly  Weaver  '93,  and  List 

favored  to  do  so,  but  they 

fifty-one  wins.  The  one- 

team  record  set  in  1974-75 

year  it  was  Pagliaro.  Don't 

didn't.  The  two-game  losing 

game-at-a-time  philosophy 

and  1983-84.  In  that  first 

be  surprised  if  this  year's 

streak  then  grew  to  lour  as 

also  eases  the  pain  of  a 

vear,  Burr  took  a  young 

Ivy  rookie-of-the-year  is 

Brown  lost  at  home  to 

defeat,  and  that  is  an  intelli- 

team with  only  two  seniors 

Martina  Jerant.  Following 

Princeton  (8-0  Ivy)  and 

gent  way  to  combat  the  vi- 

to its  first  winning  season 

the  split  decision  with  Har- 

Pennsylvania. Brown  is  now 

cissitudes  of  Ivy  League 

since  1984-85,  and  to  a 

vard  and  Dartmouth,  the 

3-5  in  league  play. 

play. 

third-place  finish  in  the  Ivy 

freshman  center  was  named 

Wrestling  (17-3)  trav- 

On a  recent  February 

League.  More  important, 

rookie-of-the-week  for  the 

eled  to  Ithaca  for  what  has 

home-court  weekend  at 

she  transformed  the  team's 

second  straight  week.  Jerant 

become  the  annual  Ivy 

Pizzitola,  Brown  beat 

Ivy  record  from  5-9  to  9-5. 

scored  forty  points  and 

League  championship 

defending  champion  Har- 

For this  reversal  of  fortune, 

pulled  down  twenty  four 

showdown.  Once  again 

vard  on  Friday  night  and 

she  was  named  Converse 

rebounds  in  the  two  games. 

Brown  fell  to  perennial 

then  lost  to  Dartmouth  on 

District  One  Coach  of  the 

And  now,  even  with  the 

champion  Cornell,  23- Id. 

Saturday.  The  loss  was  not 

Year. 

first  half  of  the  season  in  the 

The  Bears  then  beat  Central 

part  of  the  game  plan;  the 

The  team  was  16-10  in 

net,  Burr  would  be  the  last 

Connecticut,  Boston  Col- 

team's goal  of  an  undefeat- 

her second  season,  and  last 

to  agree  that  beating  an  Ivy 

lege,  and  Harvard. 

ed  season  at  home  had  been 

year  set  a  single-season  vic- 

foe once,  home  or  away,  is 

Men's  swimming  (8-3) 

shattered. 

tory  total  of  nineteen.  They 

any  guarantee  you  will  beat 

defeated  Columbia  and 

But  Burr  did  not  allow 

finished  second  in  the  Ivy 

them  twice.  (The  Ivy  season 

Army  for  its  seventh  and 

the  team  to  dwell  on  the 

League  with  a  10-4  record. 

requires  playing  each  of  the 

eighth  wins  of  the  season. 

Dartmouth  disappointment. 

Senior  co-captains  Margaret 

other  seven  teams  twice,  at 

Last  year  the  team  finished 

After  a  week  of  practice, 

Fuchs  and  Janet  Firlings 

home  and  awav.)  But  with 

with  only  three  victories. 

thev  boarded  the  bus  to  face 

were  named  to  the  second- 

Shonica  Tunstall's  team- 

Ron  McBride  '94  set  a 

Princeton  and  Pennsylvania 

team  All-Ivy  squad,  and 

leading  rebounding,  Jerant's 

school  record  (9:19.63)  in  the 

on  the  following  weekend. 

freshman  point  guard 

team-leading  scoring,  and 

1,000-yard  freestyle  in  the 

The  hard-fought  victories 

Pagliaro  was  named  Ivy 

support  from  Kathy  Hill  '94 

meet. 

on  those  alien  courts 

rookie-of-the-year. 

and  former  rookies-of-the- 

Women's  ice  hockey 

showed  the  team's  resolve. 

Despite  the  loss  of  Fir- 

year  Pagliaro  and  Weaver, 

beat  Yale,  5-0,  to  improve  its 

Sophomore  Michelle 

lings  and  Fuchs,  Burr  was 

the  team  is  well  positioned 

record  to  5-3-0  in  the  Ivy 

Pagliaro's  heroics  saved  the 

not  dismayed  as  the  present 

to  win  the  Ivy  title.  "This  is 

League.  Andrea  Boudreau 

day  at  Princeton  when  she 

season  began.  She  adapted, 

a  hungry  group,"  Burr  said. 

'95  and  Andrea  Spruell  '95 

connected  on  a  three-point 

changing  the  balance  of 

"One  of  their  pre-season 

each  scored  two  goals.  The 

shot  at  the  buzzer,  giving 

attack  to  include  solid  back- 

goals  was  to  win  the  cham- 

team then  lost  to  Princeton 

Brown  a  three-point  win. 

court  shooting,  and  she 

pionship." 

but  beat  St.  Lawrence. 

Against  Pennsylvania  the 

emphasized  defense.  The 

The  late  U.S.  Senator 

Men's  hockey,  after 

following  night,  it  was 

team  is  currently  ranked 

Everett  Dirksen,  when  talk- 

blasting Princeton  and 

Pagliaro's  basket  with  five 

second  in  the  nation  in 

ing  about  the  national  bud- 

impressing with  a  come- 

minutes  remaining  that  put 

defense. 

get,  quipped,  "A  billion 

from-behind  tie  with  Yale, 

the  Bears  ahead  and  gave 

Among  the  team  goals 

here,  a  billion  there;  soon 

suffered  two  one-goal  losses 

them  the  win. 

chalked  on  the  locker-room 

you're  talking  about  real 

to  Colgate  (in  overtime)  and 

Appointed  head  coach 

blackboard  at  preseason  is 

money."  For  women's  bas- 

Cornell. Despite  the  set- 

in July  1988,  Burr  wasted  no 

an  Ivy  championship.  The 

ketball,  a  win  here  and  a 

backs,  Brown,  with  a  7-7-4 

time  getting  women's  bas- 

foundation for  achieving 

win  there  will  mean  real 

ECAC  record,  remained  in 

ketball  back  on  the  winning 

that  goal  was  laid  when  the 

pavdirt:  a  record-win  season 

the  playoff  picture  in  sev- 

track. The  former  profession- 

team traveled  South  at  the 

and  an  Ivy  League  champi- 

enth place.  Derek  Chauvette 

al  basketball  player  with  the 

beginning  of  January  to  par- 

onship. 

'93  is  the  ECAC's  leading 

New  Jersey  Gems  immedi- 

ticipate in  the  University  of 

scorer  after  his  second  con- 

ately turned  6-20  into  16-10. 

Central  Florida  Holiday 

secutive  seven-point  week- 

Burr, a  1477  graduate  of  the 

Tournament.  "The  Florida 

Winter  roundup 

end.  He  now  has  10  goals 

University  of  New  Hamp- 

tournament was  great  for 

and  24  assists. 

shire,  came  to  Brown  after 

the  team,"  Burr  says.  "We 

For  men's  basketball, 

Women's  squash  was 

spending  three  years  as  an 

finished  third  of  eight 

February's  fortunes  and 

ranked  sixth  in  the  nation 

assistant  coach  at  Fairfield 

teams,  going  head  to  head 

misfortunes  have  been  as 

after  Howe  Cup  competi- 

University in  Connecticut. 

with  some  of  the  best  teams 

mercurial  as  mid-winter's 

tion  at  Yale,  and  men's 

She  also  coached  at  Bethany 

in  the  country." 

temperatures  in  Providence. 

squash,  after  a  loss  to  Trini- 

College, Amherst,  the  Uni- 

Brown has  had  a  lock  on 

First,  the  Bears  faced  Har- 

ty, blanked  Connecticut 

versity  of  Massachusetts, 

rookie-of-the-year  honors  in 

vard  and  Dartmouth  away. 

College  and  MIT. 

BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHH         I" 


SCOREBOARD 


(January  20-February  23) 


Two-sport  coach 
to  lighten  load 

Phil  Pincince,  who  guided 
Softball  to  ten  winning  sea- 
sons (the  team  was  33-12  in 
1991)  and  three  Ivy  champi- 
onships (1982, 1986, 1990), 
will  leave  the  dugout  at  the 
conclusion  of  the  1992  sea- 
son. He  will  continue  to 
coach  women's  soccer. 

"After  coaching  two 
sports  for  more  than  thir- 
teen years,  it's  time  to  spend 
some  more  time  with  my 
family  and  devote  my  full- 
time  attention  to  the  wom- 
en's soccer  program,"  Pin- 
cince said.  He  added  that  it 
has  become  impossible  to 
coach  and  recruit  in  two 
major  sports,  owing  to  the 
overlapping  of  the  sports 
and  the  new  rule  allowing 
for  spring  soccer  practice. 

Athletic  Director  Dave 
Roach  supported  Pincince 
in  his  decision,  adding, 
"Softball  and  women's  soc- 
cer have  grown  at  Brown, 
mostly  due  to  his  coaching 
expertise." 

In  1990,  softball  won  its 
third  Ivy  League  Champi- 


Phil  Pincince  will 

concentrate  on  women's 

soccer  in  the  future. 


onship  while  winning  thir- 
ty-one games.  In  1991,  the 
team  won  thirty-three  games 
and  earned  an  ECAC  playoff 
berth.  During  his  thirteen 
years  of  coaching  softball, 
Pincince  compiled  a  239- 
173  record  and  posted  eight 
consecutive  winning  seasons 
from  1981-1988.  He  has 
coached  thirty-four  first- 
team  and  twenty-five  sec- 
ond-team All-Ivy  selections. 
Pincince  will  continue  to 
direct  the  women's  soccer 
program,  which,  in  his  fif- 
teen years  as  coach,  has  a 
149-67-14  record.  The  team 
has  won  ten  Ivy  League 
titles  and  has  been  invited 
to  the  NCAA  tournament 
six  times.  He  has  coached 
longer  than  any  other  Divi- 
sion I  women's  soccer  coach 
in  America  and  was  Nation- 
al Coach  of  the  Year  in  1984 
after  the  Bears  finished  the 
season  with  a  13-1-1  record 
and  a  number-two  national 
ranking.  01 


Men's  Hockey  (9-14-4) 

Colgate  7,  Brown  3 

Boston  University  8,  Brown  2 

Brown  4,  Union  3 

Brown  1 ,  RPI1 

Brown  8,  Princeton  4 

Brown  5,  Yale  5 

Colgate  9,  Brown  8 

Cornell  4,  Brown  3 

Brown  5,  Vermont  2 

Brown  5,  Dartmouth  2 

Women's  Hockey  (10-10) 

Northeastern  6,  Brown  0 

Dartmouth  5,  Brown  4 

Brown  4,  Harvard  3 

Dartmouth  4,  Brown  2 

Brown  5,  Harvard  3 

Cornell  3,  Brown  0 

RIT  4,  Brown  2 

Providence  6,  Brown  1 

Brown  5,  Yale  0 

Princeton  3,  Brown  1 

Brown  2,  St.  Lawrence  1 

New  Hampshire  5,  Brown  1 

Brown  5,  Cornell  4 

Men's  Basketball  (9-13) 

Brown  70,  Rider  60 

Yale  56,  Brown  53 

Brown  69,  Cornell  59 

Brown  65,  Columbia  60 

Harvard  75,  Brown  71 

Dartmouth  60,  Brown  55 

Princeton  79,  Brown  54 

Pennsylvania  86,  Brown  67 

Columbia  81,  Brown  69 

Cornell  96,  Brown  78 

Women's  Basketball  (18-4) 
Brown  77,  Hofstra  53 

Brown  60,  Yale  50 

Brown  77,  Cornell  61 

Brown  74,  Columbia  63 

Brown  76,  Harvard  71 

Dartmouth  69,  Brown  65 

Brown  61,  Princeton  58 

Brown  59,  Pennsylvania  56 

Brown  74,  Columbia  62 

Brown  77,  Cornell  63 

Men's  Swimming  (8-3) 

Yale  142,  Brown  100 

Brown  174,  Providence  124 

Brown  142.5,  Cornell  100.5 

Brown  132.5,  Columbia  102.5 

Brown  1 26,  Army  1 1 7 


Women's  Swimming  (5-4) 
Yale  167,  Brown  131 

Brown  174,  Providence  123 
Cornell  142.5,  Brown  133.5 
Brown  160,  Boston  University 
121 
Brown  187,  Columbia  107 
6th  at  Easterns  at  Harvard 

Wrestling  (19-3) 

Brown31,F&M6 

Brown  36,  Wagner  9 

Brown  28,  Princeton  6 

Brown  24,  Duke  12 

Brown  30,  Pennsylvania  7 

Cornell  23,  Brown  16 

Brown  20,  Northwestern  16 

Lock  Haven  26,  Brown  9 

Brown  20,  Central  Connecticut 

13 

Brown  37,  Harvard  6 

Brown  46,  Boston  College  2 

Brown  33,  Columbia  1 1 

Brown  34,  Manhattan  11 

Women's  Indoor  Track  and 
Field  (3-0) 

Broun  85,  Rhode  Island  32, 
Springfield  19,  Yale  15 

Men's  Indoor  Track  and  Field 
(2-0) 

Brown  74.5,  Pennsylvania  66.5, 
Yale  29 

Women's  Squash  (6-2) 

Brown  9,  Tufts  0 

Brown  8,  Amherst  1 

Harvard  9,  Brown  0 

Brown  5,  Dartmouth  4 

Princeton  9,  Brown  0 

Brown  8,  Pennsylvania  1 

Men's  Squash  (6-8) 

Brown  8,  Tufts  1 

Amherst  7,  Brown  2 

Brown  6,  Cornell  3 

Harvard  9,  Brown  0 

Brown  9,  Wesleyan  0 

Brown  9,  Rochester  0 

Dartmouth  5,  Brown  4 

Pennsylvania  9,  Brown  0 

Princeton  9,  Brown  0 

Trinity  7,  Brown  2 

Brown  9,  Connecticut  College  0 

Brown  9,  M.I.T.  0 

Brown  5,  Vassar  4* 

Amherst  7,  Brown  2* 

*team  championships  at  Yale 


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A  work  crew  of  student  volunteers 
repairs  an  elderly  mans  house 
and  discovers  in  the  process  that 
sometimes  the  renovation  of  a 
property  and  the  preservation  of 
the  owner's  pride  go  hand  in  hand 


By  Anne  Diffily 
Photographs  by  John  Foraste 


A  lot  can  happen  in  one  week.  We've  seen 
it  on  a  global  scale:  the  crumbling  of  a 
wall  in  Berlin  and  the  opening  of  an 
entire  country  to  democracy;  more  recently,  the 
visible  failure  of  Communism  and  the  beginning 
of  the  end  of  the  Soviet  Union. 

On  a  smaller  scale,  a  week  can  bring  other 
transformations  that  are  less  publicized,  but  are 
important  in  their  own  way.  Something  of  this  sort 
happened  on  Pawleys  Island  off  the  coast  of  South 
Carolina  during  the  six  days  beginning  Sunday, 
January  12.  That  week,  thirteen  Brown  student 
volunteers  -  many  of  them  strangers  at  the  outset  - 
converged  on  the  small,  poor  year-round  commu- 
nity for  five  days  of  hard  labor.  A  reserved,  elderly 
man  named  Charles  Smith  opened  his  long-neglect- 
ed home  to  the  student  work  crew  in  order  that 
they  might  repair  and  renovate  it. 

On  one  level,  what  happened  that  week  was 
the  revival  of  Mr.  Smith's  small  house,  which  now 
boasts  a  rebuilt  living-room  floor,  a  leak-proofed 
roof,  scrubbed  and  repainted  walls  and  ceilings,  a 
repaired  lavatory,  new  refrigerator,  and  a  gleam- 


ing, polyurethaned  wooden  floor. 

Those  improvements  alone  represent  a  signifi- 
cant achievement,  particularly  since  rain  caused 
the  bulk  of  the  work  to  be  crammed  into  four 
intense  days.  But  there  were  less  tangible  accom- 
plishments, as  well. 

The  Brown  volunteers  recorded  their  impres- 
sions of  the  week,  day  by  day,  in  a  notebook. 
Reading  it,  one  realizes  that  their  physical  effort 
was  accompanied  by  a  maelstrom  of  thought  and 
discussion  that,  in  the  long  run,  may  prove  to  have 
been  every  bit  as  significant  as  the  improvements 
to  Mr.  Smith's  house. 

"Why  are  we  doing  this?"  "How  can  we  invade 
Mr.  Smith's  house  without  robbing  him  of  his  dig- 
nity?" "What  impact  will  our  work  have  on  the 
larger  problem  of  poverty  on  Pawleys  Island,  and 
in  the  U.S.  as  a  whole?" 

Such  questions  preoccupied  the  volunteers, 
who  seemed  acutely  aware  of  their  privileged  lives 
as  Ivy  League  students,  and  uncomfortable  about 
the  potential  for  arrogance  or  presumption  inher- 
ent in  their  roles  as  transient  doers  of  good  deeds. 


20  /  MARCH  1992 


This  was  the  second  year  that  a  platoon  of 
Brown  students  spent  part  of  the  winter 
break  rehabilitating  a  badly  deteriorated 
house  on  Pawleys  Island.  The  trips  were  spon- 
sored by  Brown  Community  Outreach,  the  student 
volunteer  umbrella  organization,  which  worked 
with  an  Episcopal  mission  in  the  Pawleys  Island 
community,  Camp  Baskervill,  to  identify  work 
projects.  Chris  Gavin,  project  coordinator  in  Brown's 
Howard  Swearer  Center  for  Public  Service,  had 
seen  the  devastation  wreaked  on  the  island's  poor 
by  Hurricane  Hugo  in  1989,  and  tipped  off  the 
BCO  organizers  about  the  need  for  help. 

Located  about  a  half-hour's  drive  south  of 
Myrtle  Beach,  Pawleys  Island  is  a  place  of  great 
contrasts  -  of  dazzling  wealth  and  grinding  pover- 
ty. Million-dollar  beach  houses  sit  within  a  half- 
mile  of  small  shacks  that  often  have  no  running 
water  or  heat. 

Rice  was  once  the  island's  main  source  of 
income,  but  that  has  been  replaced  by  industry. 
Seventy-four-year-old  Charles  Smith  had  worked 
for  two  of  those  industries  -  a  paper  mill  and  a 


On  Tuesday  morning,  the  students 
arrive  (left)  at  the  Georgetown,  South 
Carolina,  home  of  Charles  Smith  (inset, 
far  left)  for  their  first  full  day  of  work. 


chemical  company  -  but  he  is  now 
retired  and  suffering  from  arthritis  and 
other  ailments  of  old  age.  I  fis  small 
house  in  the  Pawleys  Island  community 
of  Georgetown  has  been  in  the  family 
for  several  generations.  Smith  has  lived 
there  most  of  his  life,  sharing  the  house 
with  his  mother  until  her  death  in  the 
late  1960s,  and  later  with  a  sister,  who 
died  three  years  ago. 

Recently  Charles  Smith  applied  to 
Camp  Baskervill  for  help  with  his 
house.  Kathleen  Campbell,  coordinator 
of  Baskervill's  construction  ministry, 
assigned  the  Brown  contingent  to  the 
project. 

When  they  first  visited  the  site  on 
Sunday,  January  12,  the  Brown  work 
crew  found  Smith's  house  badly  in 
need  of  repairs.  A  strong  odor  from  a 
malfunctioning  toilet  filled  the  interior, 
which  was  dark,  stale,  and  dirty.  Dead 
ants  littered  the  refrigerator,  and  the 
living-room  floor  was  rotted  out  so  that 
it  actually  rested  on  the  ground,  about 
one  foot  below  its  normal  level.  All 
of  the  walls  and  ceilings  needed  to  be 
scrubbed  and  repainted,  and  a  leaky 
roof  required  immediate  attention. 

Perhaps  even  more  intimidating,  the 
group  sensed  that  they  were  less  than 
welcome.  Mr.  Smith  initially  seemed  overwhelmed 
by  the  sudden  presence  of  thirteen  young  people 
in  his  house,  and  was  silent  while  they  inspected 
the  premises. 

Nevertheless,  after  a  rain  delay  on  Monday, 
the  work  began  in  earnest.  A  local  carpenter,  Tim 
Swain,  supervised  the  replacement  of  the  living 
room  floor,  while  the  students  divided  themselves 
into  units  for  cleaning,  scraping,  caulking,  and 
painting.  One  particularly  sensitive  task  was  sorting 
through  and  cleaning  the  closed-up  bedroom  of 
Charles  Smith's  sister,  Louise,  which  had  not  been 
touched  since  her  death. 

Despite  their  initial  fears  and  skepticism,  the 
volunteers  found  their  enthusiasm  and  excitement 
building  each  day.  Each  worker  had  paid  a  total 
of  $85  for  lodging  at  Camp  Baskervill  and  for  food, 
which  the  group  cooked  themselves,  as  well  as 
about  $35  in  travel  expenses  (carpools);  each  had 
his  or  her  own  reason  for  joining  the  project,  rang- 
ing from  selfishness  ("I'm  doing  this  for  me")  to 
altruism  ("It  may  be  possible  through  individual 
efforts  to  make  a  dent  in  this  country's  social  ills"). 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  21 


This  year's  work  crew  was  kind  enough  to 
share  its  daily  journal  with  the  BAM, 
and  to  permit  us  to  reproduce  excerpts. 
We're  pleased  to  share  with  our  readers  the  stu- 
dents' own  story  of  a  week  in  which  some  impor- 
tant things  happened  in  a  small  community  on  the 
South  Carolina  coast. 


The  Brown  students  who  went  to  Pawleys  Island  this 
year  were  Emily  Blank  '93,  Jeff  Brown  '95,  Meredith 
Davies  '94,  Dan  Erikson  '95,  Henry  Fisher  '94,  Rebekah 
Ham  '93,  Alison  Hickey  '94,  Jennifer  McCall  '93  (stu- 
dent coordinator),  Matthew  Meyer  '94,  Alyssa  Quails 
'93,  John  Rohrbach  '93,  Micol  Rothman  '93,  and  Lara 
Tannenbaum  '92.  Three  Brown  staff  members  attended 
all  or  some  of  the  week  as  well:  Susan  Stroud,  director 
of  the  Center  for  Public  Service;  Mire  Regulus  '91,  also 
of  the  Center;  and  University  Relations  Photographer 
John  Foraste. 


Rebekah  Ham  '93  (above)  applies  soap  and  elbow 
grease  to  various  pots  and  kitchen  appliances 
coated  with  years'  worth  of  grime. 


Pawleys  Island  Journal 

Sunday,  January  12 


Early  in  the  morning,  the  group  made  its  first  visit  to 
Charles  Smith's  house. 

IVathleen  knocked  on  Mr.  Smith's  door.  As  he 
looked  out  at  our  eager  faces,  his  first  response 
was,  "I  thought  you  were  coming  Monday  [tomor- 
row]." .  .  .  Throughout  our  visit,  I  felt  like  an  in- 
vader. Who  the  hell  were  we  to  come  down  for  a 
week  and  say,  "We're  gonna  make  your  life  better"? 
His  place  was  practically  a  shack,  but  I  wonder  if 
he  was  happy. 

■  Matt  Meyer 

iVlr.  Smith  seemed  strangely  out  of  place  in  his 
miserable  surroundings.  He  carried  his  dignity 
with  him  like  a  precious  possession.  ...  I  sense 
that  the  work  on  the  house  will  play  a  secondary 
role  to  the  preservation  of  his  pride. 

■  Dan  Erikson 


Monday,  January  1 3 


Rain  forced  postponement  of  all  but  a  few  clean-up  chores 
at  Mr.  Smith's  house  on  the  first  scheduled  work-day. 
Some  volunteers  were  frustrated;  others,  philosophical. 

1  he  slow  cultivation  of  a  trusting  relationship 
with  Mr.  Smith  seems  more  important  than  getting 
started  exactly  on  time.  I  know  the  delay  will  mean 
extremely  intensive  labor  for  the  remaining  four 
days.  If  anything,  the  rain  seems  to  have  focused 
our  attention  on  the  most  efficient  way  to  complete 
the  project  and  exactly  what  it  means  to  be  here. 
■  Alyssa  Quails 

[  1  his  morning)  1  was  handed  a  toilet  brush  and 
Lysol  -  not  exactly  the  perfect  wake-up  call.  Lucki- 
ly, Kurt,  the  plumber,  was  able  to  fix  [Mr.  Smith's] 
toilet  without  mv  help.  ...  I  had  an  enjoyable  time 
scrubbing  the  dirt  and  grease  off  the  walls.  It 
was  instantly  gratifying  to  discover  green  walls 
beneath  the  foreign  bodies.  Speaking  of  which,  [we 
encountered]  various  ants,  roaches,  and  spiders 
around  the  kitchen.  .  . .  Mr.  Smith  was  more  cordial 
this  morning.  He  subtly  expressed  his  gratitude 
for  our  presence.  He  was  obviously  happy  to  have 


22  /  MARCH  1992 


«    ■ 


/ 


Mire  Regulus  '91,  Matt  Meyer 
'94,  and  Henry  Fisher  '94  (right) 
install  new  floor  joists  in  the 
living  room.  That  night,  Meyer 
(above)  records  his  impressions 
in  the  group's  journal:  "Built  a 
floor  today,  and  a  lot  has  gone, 
and  is  still  going,  through  my 
mind, "  he  begins. 


Michelangelo  couldn't  have  been  more  pleased  than 
is  Jeff  Brown  '95  (above)  when  the  kitchen  ceiling's 
true  color  emerges  under  his  scrubbing. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  23 


Meredith  Davies  '94 
is  pensive  as  she 
sorts  the  belongings 
of  Mr.  Smith's  late 
sister,  Louise.  The 
woman 's  bedroom 
had  not  been  dis- 
turbed since  her 
death  three  years 
ago. 


the  bathroom  fixed.  .  .  .  We're  stuck  in  the  middle 
of  several  issues:  what  [does]  Mr.  Smith  want? 
What  is  good  for  him?  What  is  our  role  here?  How 
sensitive  must  we  be  to  Mr.  Smith's  desires?  Is  our 
goal  to  please  him  or  fix  the  house? 
■  Jeff  Brown 


Tuesday,  January  14 


1  omorrow  we  get  to  paint  the  dining  room,  and 
I'm  looking  forward  to  this  seemingly  more  creative 
activity  -  less  tedious  than  scratching  paint  off 
windows  with  a  razor  blade.  I  like  this  group  and 
I'm  beginning  to  feel  very  positive  about  my  deci- 
sion to  participate.  It  helps  that  Mr.  Smith  came 
walking  through  the  part  we'd  worked  on  all  day, 
accompanied  by  a  friend  who  couldn't  say  enough 
about  how  wonderful  our  work  was. 

■  Bekah  Ham 

Otanding  on  a  floor  you  just  helped  to  build  is  a 
fantastic  feeling.  To  be  completely  honest,  I  was  at 
first  shocked  that  it  didn't  fall  through! 

■  Matt  Meyer 

1  remember  now  why  I've  considered  a  career  in 
physical  labor/contracting  so  seriously,  so  many 
times.  The  aches,  the  exhaustion,  the  scummy  feel- 


ing of  having  dirt  and  cobwebs  all  over  your  body 
-  they  all  have  a  healthy  cast  to  them  after  doing 
truly  useful  work.  ...  I  continue  to  be  impressed 
by  how  hard  people  are  working,  and  how  cooper- 
ative the  group  has  been  -  I've  only  seen  a  few 
days  [out  of  many]  when  a  work  crew  functioned 
as  well.  And  none  of  those  did  it  without  an 
authoritative  supervisor  and  monetary  incentive. 

■  Henry  Fisher 

...  1  am  one  of  those  people  who  tends  to  be  kind 
of  cynical  about  the  whole  group-bonding  thing. 
And  I  get  very  annoyed  sometimes  at  groups  that 
come  back  from  [projects]  of  this  nature  and  say, 
"Wow,  we  have  such  a  common  bond  now."  But 
honestly,  I  really  feel  close  to  people  here.  I  feel 
comfortable  in  this  group,  and  I  was  surprised  at 
how  soon  that  feeling  came. 

■  Micol  Rothman 


Wednesday,  January  1 5 

.  .  .  iVlr.  Smith  showed  his  friend,  Annie  Mae, 
around  the  house  today.  He  was  so  proud  of  our 
work.  He  had  noticed  everything  we  had  done. . . . 
he  came  out  of  his  shell  to  rave  about  how  great 
his  house  looked.  Annie  Mae's  "Praise  the  Lord"s 
and  "Hallelujah"s  added  to  the  atmosphere.  Mr. 


24  /  MARCH  1992 


Smith  actually  noticed  the  hours  1  put  in  painting 
the  trim  and  the  cabinet,  among  other  projects. 

■  Jeff  Brown 

I  oday,  Susan,  Bekah,  and  I  returned  from  George- 
town early  to  go  grocery  shopping,  and  Bekah 
called  me  to  come  outside.  Right  behind  Grant 
Hall,  the  sky  was  more  beautiful  than  I  had  seen  it 
in  a  long  time  -  there  were  many  small  white-gray 
clouds,  and  they  were  lit  from  behind  by  a  glow- 
ing orange  sky.  This  was  at  the  end  of  a  truly  pro- 
ductive day  of  physical  labor;  we  had  concrete 
results.  And  I  felt  so  human  at  that  moment  -  I 
guess  what  I  mean  is  I  realized  that  I  am  human 
and  I  have  the  potential  to  really  effect  change.  . . . 

■  Jen  McCall 


A  month,  six  months,  or  a  year  from  now,  will 
we  tell  others  what  an  incredible  bonding  and 
learning  experience  this  was?  Or  will  we  tell  them 
how  we  touched  another  human  being  with  our 
vigorous  work?  ( Will  1  we  wonder  how  Mr. 
Smith's  floors  and  paint  jobs  are  holding  up,  and  if 
he  remembers  us?  . .  .  It's  not  such  an  awful  thing 
to  say  that  I  got  more  out  of  giving  than  the  recipi- 
ent did  from  receiving. 
■  Matt  Meyer 


All  in  a  day's  work:  Henry  Fisher  repairs 
a  window  (top).  Emily  Blank  '93,  Lara 
Tannenbaum  '92,  and  Fisher  paint  the 
back  hallway  (left).  Above,  John  Rohrbach 
'93,  Alison  Hickey  '94,  and  Matt  Meyer 
take  five  on  the  "new"  second-hand  sofa 
the  group  bought  Mr.  Smith  with  unused 
money  from  their  food  allowance. 


Dan  pointed  out  that  the  song  "Open  Letter"  by 
Living  Colour  pertained  to  what  we  are  doing  for 
Mr.  Smith.  The  chorus  is  the  most  pertinent: 

Nozv  you  can  tear  a  building  down 

But  you  can't  erase  a  memory. 

These  houses  may  look  all  run-dozen 

But  they  have  a  value  you  can't  see.  . . . 

1  just  hope  we  can  uncover  this  "value"  for  Mr. 
Smith  and  for  us. 

•  Jeff  Brown 


Thursday,  January  16 

Yesterday,  Mire  and  I  cleaned  up  Mr.  Smith's  sis- 
ter's room.  It  was  hard  to  do  -  sort  of  eerie,  and  it 
didn't  feel  completely  right.  I  felt  as  though, 
although  I'm  sure  we  were  doing  a  positive  thing 
for  him  in  the  long  run,  who  were  we  to  be  sorting 
through  this  woman's  life? 
■  Meredith  Davies 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  25 


1  he  driving  question  that  we  leave  behind  is, 
"What  will  become  of  Mr.  Smith?"  Have  we  really 
changed  his  life,  or  just  our  own,  or  neither?  This 
trip  has  been  a  great  experience,  but  its  final  effects 
won't  necessarily  be  felt  at  the  end  of  our  work 
here. 

■  Dan  Erikson 


Friday,  January  17 


1  may  have  been  in  twenty-five  states,  but  I  only 
feel  I've  really  been  to  three.  And  those  are  the  [sites] 
of  [volunteer]  projects.  When  I  leave  South  Caroli- 
na, there  will  be  painted  baseboards  in  a  living 
room  in  Georgetown  that  are  off-white  because  / 
made  them  that  way.  Unless  I  do  something  in  a 
place,  impact  it  in  however  tiny  a  way  and  make  it 
a  part  of  what  it  is,  I  feel  I  haven't  really  been  there. 
It  hasn't  changed  for  my  presence;  I've  just  passed 
through.  I'm  a  little  bit  of  Georgetown  now. ...  I 
believe  in  the  physical  accomplishment  of  a  hard 
day's  scrubbing,  caulking,  spackling,  and  painting. 
And  I  believe  in  friendships  founded  on  that. 
■  Alison  Hickey 


Bekah  Ham  carefully  replaces  china  in  a  freshly- 
painted  kitchen  cupboard.  The  newly  sanded  and 
polyurethaned  dining-room  floor  gleams  in  the 
background. 

When  Tim  said  we  had  made  such  a  difference  in 
[Mr.  Smith's]  life,  it  gave  me  mixed  feelings.  The 
instinctive  thing  is  to  say,  "Yeah,  we  did."  But 
we've  been  so  trained  to  question  that .  . .  and  to 
realize  that  we  are  going  back  to  our  cloistered  little 
Ivy  League  environment.  I  know  we're  not  saints 
sent  to  do  the  work  of  God  . .  .  but  I'm  proud  of  us 
-  pulling  together,  being  so  enthusiastic,  support- 
ing each  other. 

■  Micol  Rothman 

Wne  thing  comes  to  my  mind  right  now  -  the 
quote  that  I  used  in  mv  [high  school]  yearbook:  Any- 
one can  smile,  but  it  is  the  one  who  makes  others  smile 
who  is  truh/  the  happiest.  ...  I  have  waited  all  week 
for  today,  the  last  day,  when  all  the  work  has  been 
completed.  I've  been  anxious  to  see  Mr.  Smith's 
expression.  This  afternoon,  while  he  was  sitting  in 
his  new  easy  chair,  talking  with  his  nephew,  I  saw 
him  crack  a  big,  wide  smile.  It  wasn't  for  long,  but 
it  was  still  a  smile. 

■  Jeff  Brown 

You  can't  individually  change  the  world  by  re- 
building it,  house  by  house.  [But]  you  can  by 
inspiring  others  to  build,  who  in  turn  inspire  others. 
. . .  Listen  to  Peter  Gabriel's  [song]  "Bika."  I  wonder 
if  we  lit  a  candle  or  a  fire.  (And  I'll  probably  won- 
der forever,  which  is  the  way  it  should  be.) 

■  Matt  Meyer  ED 


Nearing  the  end  of  their  week  on  Pawleys  Island, 
the  Brown  work  crew  poses  with  pleased  home- 
owner Charles  Smith  (foreground,  left)  and  local 
carpenter  Tim  Swain  (in  cowboy  hat),  who  super- 
vised the  construction  work. 


26  /  MARCH  1992 


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n  the  night  of 

the  East  Campus 

Dining  Center's 

(ECDC)  grand 
closing  last  spring, 
University  Food  Ser- 
vices (UFS)  raffled  off 
the  grease-spattered, 
ketchup-caked  picnic 
tables  engraved  with 
the  initials  of  countless 
chicken-cutlet  fans. 
When  the  University's 
latest  snack  bar,  Josi- 
ah's,  opened  its  doors  in  the  new  Thay- 
er Street  dorinitorv  in  September,  stu- 
dents vied  for  tables  again.  Hungry 
Brunonians  charged  en  masse  to  the  cor- 
ner of  Charlesfield  and  Thayer,  eager  to 
scope  out  the  new  hang-out. 

And  new  is  the  word  for  Josiah's. 
The  name  may  evoke  a  sixty-year-old 


Might  Fare  on 
Thayer  Street 


BY  JOANNA  NORLAND  '94 


Its  decor  has  been  likened  to  a  mall,  but 
Josiah's  draws  crowds  for  after-hours  snacks 


Brown  myth  concerning  a  professor  of 
psychoceramics,  but  there's  nothing 
old-fashioned  about  Josiah's  neon  deco- 
rating scheme,  vinyl  upholstery,  open 
seating  area,  and  scramble  service  sys- 
tem. 

So  far,  the  effort  to  create  an  attrac- 
tive, updated  food  emporium  has  been 


a  success.  Josiah's  is 
serving  some  1,400 
students  a  night  - 
more  than  three 
times  the  average  at 
the  old  ECDC. 

"We  needed  a 
facility  to  replace 
ECDC,"  says  Nor- 
man Cleaveland  '52, 
director  of  food  ser- 
vices. "It  was  in 
decline.  Fewer  and 
fewer  people  were 
going  there.  And  we  wanted  to  accom- 
modate the  300  students  in  the  new 
dormitorv,  most  of  whom  are  on  meal 
plan.  We  chose  neon,"  he  added,  "be- 
cause we'd  never  done  it  before.  We 
wanted  to  try  something  different." 

"The  'Greasy  DC  might  have  been 
condemned  if  thev  hadn't  closed  it," 


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laughs  Rebecca  Vargus  '94  of  Indianapo- 
lis, who  worked  at  the  old  snack  bar  last 
year  and  switched  to  Josiah's  in  Septem- 
ber. "It  was  slimy  and  oily  and  gross. 
People  like  the  food  at  Josiah's  a  lot  bet- 
ter." 

Students  seem  to  agree  that  food 
selection  is  Josiah's  strong  point.  Left- 
over breakfast  credit  (who  wakes  up 
early  enough  for  breakfast,  anyway?) 
buys  just  about  anything.  Selections  run 
the  gamut  from  pristine  mineral  water 
and  bagels  to  pseudo-healthy  frozen 
yogurt,  to  french  fries,  cheese  sticks,  and 
Philly  steaks  guaranteed  to  suit  even  the 
most  exacting  grease  fiend.  Steak  sand- 
wiches, pita  roll-ups,  and  bakery  items 
score  the  highest  points  with  after-hours 
snackers,  says  student  manager  Ron 
Mirenda  '93  of  St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 

"Josiah's  is  popular,"  Vargus  says. 
"Whole  sororities  come  at  once." 

Has  the  new  kid  on  Thayer  Street 
captured  every  heart?  Well .  . .  not 
quite. 

"Josiah's  opening  was  an  anticlimax," 
says  Isaac  Hazard  '94  of  Portland,  Maine. 
"UFS  put  so  much  positive  publicity 
into  it  that  there  was  no  way  it  could 
live  up  to  people's  expectations." 

Students  complain  about  the  lines, 
for  one  thing.  "You  get  these  insane 
line-ups  outside  the  serving  area  and 
then  again  when  you  go  to  pay,"  says 
Hazard.  "You  can't  just  go  in,  get 
something,  and  leave." 

Long  waits  at  the  cash  register  lead 
to  plenty  of  not-so-ethical  nibbling.  Fin- 
ger food  is  sold  by  weight,  so  the  more 
you  munch  beforehand,  the  less  you 
pay. 

"Because  of  this,  service  went  down- 
hill," explains  Isaac.  "They  got  more 
people  to  supervise  the  line  area  with- 
out increasing  the  total  work  force." 

And  without  effectively  curbing  the 
theft  problem,  either,  if  truth  be  told. 

"People  still  steal  all  kinds  of  stuff. 
You  should  see  what  they  get  away 
with,"  admits  Vargus.  "One  guy  filled  a 
whole  large  drink  cup  with  cheese 
sticks  and  just  paid  for  the  price  of  a 
drink." 

The  bottom  line,  of  course,  is  that 
theft  will  be  reflected  in  rising  food 
costs  -  and  paradoxically,  prices  are 


another  source  of  griping. 

"I  wish  people  understood  that  the 
prices  are  set  as  low  as  they  can  be. 
We  want  to  keep  the  food  quality  high, 
and  we  can't  afford  to  run  at  a  loss," 
explains  Mirenda.  All  the  same,  $1.95 
for  a  hamburger  ($2.25  with  cheese) 
seems  usurious  when  both  noshes  sell 
for  under  a  dollar  a  few  blocks  up 
Thayer  Street  at  Wendy's. 

But  the  harshest  accusation  leveled 
against  Josiah's  has  little  to  do  with 
either  cost  or  convenience.  Rather,  stu- 
dents scorn  its  ambiance  ...  or  lack 
thereof. 


"I  wish  people 

would  understand 

that  prices  are 

as  low  as  they 


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"The  atmosphere?"  muses  Mirenda. 
"I  don't  think  it  really  has  one  yet. 
Right  now  it's  still  new  and  clean,  and 
people  aren't  really  used  to  it." 

"It's  big  and  intimidating.  There  are 
no  nooks  in  Josiah's,  so  you  feel  like 
you're  on  display,"  says  Kathy  Latzoni 
'93,  of  Short  Hills,  New  Jersey.  "When- 
ever I  go  to  Jo's,  I  just  get  my  food  and 
leave." 

Heather  Cousins  '93  of  Petaluma, 
California,  sums  up  popular  sentiment 
with  the  verdict,  "It's  kind  of  like  a  mall. 
Those  neon  lights  have  got  to  go." 

Mirenda  hopes  University  Food  Ser- 
vices will  soon  follow  through  on  its 
promise  to  install  a  big-screen  TV  in  the 
dining  area.  Movie  nights  and  sports 
coverage  might  boost  Jo's  image,  he 
says.  For  now,  however,  the  newness  of 
Josiah's  has  prompted  a  surge  of  ECDC 
nostalgia. 

"I  miss  engraving  my  name  on  those 
picnic  tables,  and  we  all  miss  the  nachos 


deluxe,"  sighs  computer  science  concen- 
trator Lili  Kudo  '93,  of  Manhattan 
Beach,  California.  "ECDC  was  near 
Barus  and  Hoi  ley  and  the  CIT  [Center 
for  Information  Technology],  so  for  us 
computer-science  geeks,  nachos  deluxe 
was  the  thing  to  eat." 

"I  lived  in  Perkins,  across  the  street 
from  ECDC,  and  we  would  go  there  at 
six  to  get  dinner,  and  study  till  eleven.  I 
wouldn't  study  at  Josiah's,"  says  Lat- 
zoni. 

"ECDC  was  a  place  where  I  felt  at 
ease  and  didn't  have  to  worry  if  I 
spilled  ketchup  on  the  floor,"  recalls 
Hazard.  "I  really  felt  comfortable  there 
in  a  way  I  don't  at  Josiah's." 

But  he  often  finds  himself  heading 
for  the  new  spic-'n'-span  snack  stop  for 
french  fries  or  an  egg  roll.  Josiah's 
attracts  criticism,  but  it  also  attracts 
customers. 

"When  I  worked  at  ECDC,  we'd 
give  a  free  pastry  or  a  drink  to  the  hun- 
dredth or  two-hundredth  customer, 
because  sometimes  we  wouldn't  even 
have  that  many,"  says  Vargus.  "We 
could  never  do  that  at  Josiah's." 

"Josiah's  is  taking  business  from 
both  the  Ivy  Room  and  the  Gate,"  adds 
Cleaveland. 

The  ECDC  had  an  old-sock  kind  of 
appeal.  Students  liked  to  know  it  was 
there,  and  if  they  happened  to  find 
themselves  in  the  area,  with  absolutely 
nothing  better  to  do,  thev  might  drop 
in.  But  students  who  lived  closer  to  the 
other  two  campus  snack  bars  would 
rarely  brave  a  chilly  walk  across  cam- 
pus for  the  sake  of  a  stale  bag  of  Doritos 
or  a  smushed  ice  cream  sandwich. 

Let's  face  it:  A  ham  and  cheese  roll- 
up  and  a  cup  of  frozen  yogurt  gar- 
nished with  Oreos  are  pretty  effective 
antidotes  to  nostalgia.  And  mavbe 
someday,  Josiah's  neon  lights  will 
develop  a  cult  following  of  their  own. 

Sophomore  Joanna  Norland,  of  Ottawa, 
Ontario,  is  the  BAM's  newest  contributing 
writer. 


28  /  MARCH   1992 


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You  Must  Remember 
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A  New  Look  for  the 
Brown  Bear  Buffet 

Come  to  the  beautifully  refurbished 
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Campus  Dance,  on  Friday,  May  22, 
6-9:00  pm. 

The  Brown  Bear  Buffet,  one  of 

Brown's  oldest  Reunion  and  Commence- 
ment traditions,  has  been  brought  into 
the  21st  century  with  a  brand-new 
menu  featuring  London  broil,  poached 
salmon,  tortellini  pesto  salad,  and 
of  course,  the  ever-popular  Brown 
Derby  Pie. 

Tickets  for  the  Buffet,  which  is  spon- 
sored by  the  Associated  Alumni  of 
Brown  University,  are  available  for 
$25,  Monday,  April  27  through 
Thursday,  May  21,  9  am  -12  pm  and 
1-4  pm  at  Maddock  Alumni  Center. 

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Reunion  and  Commencement 
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Reunion  celebrants,  graduating  seniors 
and  their  families,  and  members  of  the 
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Commencement  Concert 

Purchase  tickets  now  for  an  extraordi- 
nary Commencement  Concert  fea- 
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Eugenia  Zukerman  P  '94  and  the  Brown 
University  Orchestra  conducted  by  Paul 
Phillips.  The  Concert  will  be  held  on 
Sunday,  May  24,  8  pm,  at  the  elegant, 
recently  renovated  Veterans  Memorial 
Auditorium  in  Providence.  The  program 
includes  Dvorak's  Symphony  it?  in  D 
minor,  op.  70;  Ravel's  Mother  Goose  Suite, 
and  Neilsen's  Flute  Concerto.  Proceeds 
will  benefit  the  Walter  Neiman  Archive 
of  Sound  Recordings  at  the  Brown 


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Pops  concert  will  star 
Leslie  Uggams 

In  a  return  engagement,  virtuoso  per- 
former Leslie  Uggams  will  be  the  fea- 
tured artist  at  the  Commencement 
Pops  Concert,  a  long-time  favorite  of 
Reunion  and  Commencement  weekend. 

The  Pops  Concert,  co-sponsored  by  the 
Brown  Club  of  Rhode  Island  and  the 
Pembroke  Club  of  Providence,  will  be 
held  on  Saturday  evening,  May  23  at 
9  pm  on  the  College  Green,  and  will 
also  feature  the  Rhode  Island  Philhar- 
monic Orchestra.  Master  of  Ceremonies 
is  Paul  Phillips,  conductor  of  the  Brown 
University  Orchestra. 

Uggams,  who  received  the  1 968  Tony 
Award  for  her  Broadway  debut  perfor- 
mance in  Hallelujah  Baby,  has  appeared 
in  many  Broadway  productions  as  well 
as  on  television,  where  she  was  the  first 
African-American  woman  to  host  her 
own  network  variety  show.  She  received 
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NBC's  Fantasy  series. 

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/4  five-year  study  of  the  Cuban  missile 
crisis,  organized  by  Brown's  Center  for 
Foreign  Policy  Development,  has 
uncovered  frightening  revelations  about 
how  near  the  world  was  to  a  nuclear  war 


For  Thirteen  Days  in  1962  the  World 
Watched  and  Waited . . . 


By  Larry  Grossman 


I 


I  n  October  1962,  President  John  F.  Kennedy  told 
the  American  people  -  and  the  world  -  that  the 
Soviet  Union  had  secretly  placed  medium-range 
nuclear  missiles  in  Cuba.  He  ordered  a  naval  block- 
ade of  the  island  and  demanded  that  the  U.S.S.R. 
remove  the  missiles. 

For  thirteen  chilling  days,  the  world  paused 
and  watched  anxiously  as  Kennedy  and  the  Soviet 
leader,  Nikita  Khrushchev,  played  out  what  many 
feared  was  the  overture  to  Armageddon.  It  was 
a  uniquely  traumatic  moment  in  history,  marking 
the  height  of  superpower  brinkmanship  in  the 
nuclear  age.  The  world,  Kennedy  feared,  was  at  "the 
abyss  of  destruction." 

At  Washington's  National  Press  Building  on 
January  21,  nearly  thirty  years  after  the  Cuban 
missile  crisis,  that  Cold  War  tension  was  rekindled 
as  American,  Russian,  and  Cuban  officials  who 
have  been  part  of  a  five-year-long  look  back  in 


time  talked  about  their  fantastic  -  and  often  fright- 
ening -  findings  at  a  press  conference. 

The  officials  were  participants  in  the  U.S. -Rus- 
sia-Cuba Project,  directed  by  James  G.  Blight,  a 
senior  research  fellow  at  Brown's  Center  for  For- 
eign Policy  Development  at  the  Thomas  J.  Watson, 
Jr.  Institute  for  International  Studies.  The  press 
conference  was  held  after  a  historic  -  and  possibly 
final  -  meeting  with  President  Fidel  Castro  in 
Havana,  where  it  was  learned  that  the  world  had 
been  closer  to  nuclear  war  in  1962  than  anv  of  the 
participants  would  have  dared  imagine. 

Soviet  officials  disclosed  in  Havana  that  they 
had  sent  Cuba  short-range  battlefield  atomic 
weapons  and  that  Soviet  commanders  were  autho- 
rized to  use  them  -  without  Moscow's  prior  con- 
sent -  in  the  event  of  a  U.S.  invasion. 

"That  was  horrifying,"  exclaimed  Robert  S. 
McNamara,  President  Kennedy's  defense  secretary, 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY        33 


who  would  serve  in  the  same  position  during  the 
Johnson  Administration  and  then  as  president  of 
the  World  Bank.  "The  whole  thing  is  beyond  be- 
lief," added  Arthur  M.  Schlesinger,  Jr.,  the 
noted  historian  who  was  a  close  Kennedy  ad- 
visor. Also  attending  the  press  conference  was 
Sergei  Khrushchev,  who  has  written  extensively 
on  both  his  father's  career  and  the  missile  crisis. 

American  scholars  present  in  Washington 
included  Raymond  Garthoff  of  the  Brookings 
Institution,  who  carried  out  key  analyses  of 
the  possible  rationale  and  impact  of  the 
Soviet  missile  deployment  to  Cuba 
while  serving  as  special  assistant 
for  Soviet  bloc  political/mili 
tary  affairs  in  the  State 
Department  in  the  early 
1960s;  Wayne  Smith, 
a  professor  at  the 
Johns  Hop-        jt 


Mr* 


vanced 
International 
tudies  and  a  for- 
mer head  of  the  U.S. 
Interests  Section  in 
Havana;  and  American  Uni- 
versity professor  Philip  Brenner,  who 
has  written  several  books  on  Cuba. 
Representing  Fidel  Castro  at  the  press 
conference  was  Jose  Antonio  Arbesu,  the  chief 
of  the  Cuban  Interests  Section  in  Washington. 


A 


L  nyone  now  over  forty  remembers  the  col- 
lective national  and  international  worry  of  those 
thirteen  days.  The  crisis  began  in  mid-October 
when  United  States  intelligence  came  up  with  evi- 
dence that  the  Soviet  Union  was  installing  missiles 
in  Cuba.  The  Soviets  issued  a  strong  denial,  but 
American  reconnaissance  planes  brought  back 
irrefutable  proof:  The  arms  race  -  once  distanced 


by  thousands  of  miles  of  ocean  -  was  now  only 
ninety  miles  away. 

President  Kennedy  assembled  a  task  force  of 
advisors:  Secretary  of  State  Dean  Rusk.  McNamara. 
National  Security  Advisor 
McGeorge  Bundy.  Chairman 
of  the  Joint  Chiefs  of  Staff 
Gen.  Maxwell  Taylor. 
Schlesinger.  Presidential 
Counsel  Theodore 
Sorenson.  Attorney 
General  Robert 
Kennedy.  Some 
of  them  wanted 
to  invade 
Cuba,  but  in 
the  end, 
Kennedy 
chose  a 
course  of 
restraint:  He 
laid  down  a 
naval  quarantine. 
A  flurry  of  messages 
flew  back  and  forth 
between  Moscow  and  Wash- 
ington. There  were  rumors  of  an 
American  invasion  of  Cuba,  of  a  Sovi- 
et preemptive  attack  on  the  United 
States.  President  Kennedy  himself  thought 
that  the  chances  of  nuclear  war  were  one  in 
three  or  even.  Then,  after  thirteen  days  of  great  ten- 
sion, Khrushchev  agreed  to  pull  out  the  missiles.  In 
return,  the  United  States  publicly  assured  the  Soviets 
that  there  would  be  no  invasion  of  Cuba. 

For  nearly  three  decades,  Kennedy  advisors 
and  historians  alike  found  very  little  new  evidence 
to  clear  up  the  central  mysteries  of  the  crisis:  Why 
did  Khrushchev  take  the  risk  of  putting  missiles 
into  Cuba  in  the  first  place?  How  close  was  the 
world  to  the  "abyss  of  destruction"?  And  why  did 
Moscow  back  down? 


he  U.S.-Russia-Cuba  Project  was  launched  in 
1986  at  Harvard's  Kennedy  School  of  Government 
to  reconstruct  the  nerve-wrenching  decision-mak- 
ing of  Washington  and  Moscow  during  the  missile 
crisis.  Under  the  direction  of  Blight,  now  a  senior 
research  fellow  at  the  Center  for  Foreign  Policy 
Development,  research  was  initially  carried  out  at 
the  Center  for  Science  and  International  Affairs  in 
Cambridge,  relying  on  declassified  documents 
provided  by  the  National  Security  Archive,  a 
Washington,  D.C. -based  think-tank. 

The  project  was  an  exercise  in  what  the  partici- 
pants referred  to  as  "critical  oral  history,"  which 


34  /  MARCH  1992 


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. 


Castro  reveals  a  letter  of  apology 
from  Khrushchev 


January  31,  1963,  was  a  cold  winter  day  and 
Nikita  Khrushchev  stared  across  the  snow-swept 
countryside  from  his  railroad  car.  The  long  train 
ride  east  from  Berlin  to  Moscow  provided  him 
with  a  quiet  opportunity  to  write  an  overdue 
letter  to  his  comrade  Fidel  Castro.  Their  relation- 
ship had  been  strained  by  the  events  of  what 
Khrushchev  called  the  Caribbean  crisis  just  three 
months  before.  He  had  plenty  on  his  mind. 

"Our  train  is  crossing  into  the  fields  and 
forests  of  Soviet  Byelorussia,  and  it  occurs  to  me 
how  wonderful  it  would  be  if  you  could  see,  on 
a  sunnv  dav  like  this,  the  ground  covered  with 
snow  and  the  forests  silvery  with  frost," 
Khrushchev  wrote.  "You,  a  southern  man,  have 
perhaps  seen  this  only  in  paintings.  It  must  surely 
be  difficult  for  vou  to  imagine  the  ground  carpet- 
ed with  snow  and  forests  covered  with  white 
frost.  It  would  be  good  if  you  could  visit  our 
country  during  all  the  seasons  of  the  year.  Every 
one  of  them,  spring,  summer,  fall  and  winter,  has 
its  delights.  . ." 

Historians  always  knew  that  relations  were 
strained  between  Moscow  and  Havana,  between 
Khrushchev  and  Castro,  following  those  tense 
days  in  October  1962.  How  severely  their  personal 
and  diplomatic  alliance  had  been  hurt,  however, 
remained  a  mystery.  That  is,  until  Castro  released 
the  above  letter  in  January  to  the  U.S.-Russia- 
Cuba  Project.  The  thirty-one-page  letter  was  more 
than  an  invitation  "to  talk  with  our  hearts  bared." 
It  was  a  heartfelt  apology  to  Castro  following  the 
Cuban  missile  crisis. 

"It  is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  state  docu- 
ments I  think  any  of  us  has  ever  seen,"  said  James 
G.  Blight,  the  project's  director. 

When  the  project  began  in  1986,  initial  research 
was  based  on  declassified  documents  provided  by 
the  National  Security  Archive,  an  independent 
think-tank  in  Washington,  D.C.  Before  a  project 
conference  in  1989  in  Moscow,  the  U.S.  State 
Department  declassified  correspondence  between 
President  John  F.  Kennedy  and  Khrushchev. 

During  the  meeting  in  January  in  Havana,  the 
government  of  Russian  President  Boris  Yeltsin 
announced  that  it  would  soon  release  more  than 
500  documents  from  the  period  between  July  1962 


and  February  1963.  Besides  the  Khrushchev  letter 
to  Castro,  the  project  returned  with  two  startling 
documents  that  paint  the  crisis  in  new,  more  vivid 
colors. 

The  first  was  a  draft  agreement  for  the  missile 
deployment,  written  in  the  summer  of  1962,  to  be 
signed  by  Khrushchev  and  Castro  at  a  ceremony 
in  Havana  that  November.  Ironically,  the  draft 
stated  that  "after  the  conclusion  of  this  agreement's 
validity,  the  Soviet  Armed  Forces  will  abandon 
the  territory  of  the  republic  of  Cuba.  .  ."  and  that 
". .  .  Cuba  will  furnish  all  the  aid  necessary  for  the 
evacuation  of  the  Soviet  Armed  Forces  from  Cuba." 
Of  course,  as  Blight  noted,  the  irony  is  that  no  one 
could  have  imagined  those  forces  would  be  with- 
drawn before  the  agreement  could  even  be  signed. 

The  second  was  an  October  22  letter  from 
Khrushchev  to  Castro,  their  first  communication 
after  President  Kennedy's  historic  speech  to  the 
American  people  at  7  p.m.  After  hearing  the 
speech  in  the  earliest  morning  hours,  Khrushchev 
wrote  that  he  would  ".  .  .  fight  actively  against 
such  actions"  and  that  "we  have  instructed  the 
Soviet  military  representatives  stationed  in  Cuba 
on  the  need  to  take  the  necessary'  measures  and  to 
be  at  full  readiness." 

At  the  Havana  conference  some  thirty  years 
later,  Castro  asked  the  project's  participants: 
"Does  not  Khrushchev  appear  to  be  saying  that 
Cuba  has  the  Soviet  Union's  full  support,  that  it 
will  defend  little  Cuba  with  all  its  might?"  Three 
decades  later,  it  is  understandable  why  Havana's 
relationship  with  Moscow  was  strained.  After  all, 
Castro  learned  over  U.S.  radio  of  Khrushchev's 
decision  to  withdraw. 

"This  underscores  the  importance  that  docu- 
ments had  in  this  five-year  process,"  project  mem- 
ber Philip  Brenner  of  American  University  said  in 
the  press  conference  in  Washington.  "Former  par- 
ticipants are  helped  by  looking  at  documents  that 
they  may  have  forgotten  years  ago,"  he  added. 

Brenner  and  the  rest  of  the  U.S.-Russia-Cuba 
Project  are  now  hoping  that  glasnost  comes  to  the 
United  States,  where  the  State  Department  contin- 
ues to  refuse  to  declassify  some  700  documents 
about  the  Cuban  missile  crisis.  Until  the  State 
Department  agrees,  the  critical  oral  history  of 
those  thirteen  davs  will  not  be  complete.  -  L.G. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  35 


Blight  described  as  "the  creative  interaction  of  the 
memories  of  those  who  knew  first-hand  the  bur- 
den of  responsibility  in  the  most  dangerous  crisis 
of  the  age,  scholars  who  know  second-hand  but  in 
impressive  detail,  what  the  flow  of  paper  was  like 
during  the  event,  and  declassified  material  which 
permits  both  groups  to  check  their  impressions 
and  preconceptions  against  hard  data." 

When  the  project  first  began  in  1986,  Blight 
recalled  there  were  many  people  saying  there  was 
nothing  new  to  learn  about  the  Cuban  missile  cri- 
sis. "They  said  we  were  in  danger  of  becoming  a 
group  of  nerds  who  know  more  and  more  about 
less  and  less  until,  the  theory  went,  we  know  abso- 
lutely everything  about  literally  nothing,"  Blight 
said.  "Nothing  could  have  been  further  from  the 
truth.  We  have  been  continually  astonished  at 
what  we  have  been  told,  what  we  have  read,  and, 
most  of  all,  by  the  dawning  realization  that  the 
world  in  October  1962  came  far  closer  to  nuclear 
catastrophe  than  anyone  at  the  time  thought  possi- 
ble, and  by  a  variety  of  means  no  one  thought 
feasible,"  he  added. 

At  the  first  conference,  held  in 
Florida  in  March  1987, 

American  scholars  and 
-f;    tni^  \>-^  former  members 


country  could  have  been  so  mistaken,  so  utterly 
misled  into  believing  that  a  secret,  deceptive 
deployment  of  offensive  nuclear  missiles  to  com- 
munist Cuba  could  have  been  contemplated,  much 
less  implemented."  The  pieces  of  the  Cuban  mis- 
sile crisis  puzzle  -  its  causes  and  effects  -  were 
starting  to  fall  into  place. 

The  harsh  Russian  winter  and  another  hearty 
blast  of  glasnost  were  the  backdrop  for  the  next 
conference  in  Moscow  in  January  1989.  The  Amer- 
ican delegation  met  with  senior  Soviet  policy-mak- 
ers, including  the  late  Andrei  Gromyko,  who  was 
the  Soviet  foreign  minister  during  the  crisis  and 
for  many  years  thereafter.  At  the  Moscow  meeting, 
the  Americans  learned  that  they  were  mistaken  - 
a  Soviet  general  told  them  there  had  been  twenty 
warheads  intended  for  use  on  medium-range 
Soviet  missiles  in  Cuba,  and  another  twenty  en 
route.  After  twenty-five  years,  the  Americans  had 
learned  that  their  intelligence  had  failed  them. 

During  the  missile  crisis,  "we  didn't  believe 
there  were  nuclear  warheads  in  Cuba,"  McNamara 
said.  "There  was  no  evidence  of  nuclear  warheads." 


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Kennedy 
Administra- 
tion reassessed  the 
missile  crisis,  having  recently 
gained  access  to  newly  declassified 
State  Department  and  other  U.S.  govern- 
ment documents.  Marking  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  crisis,  U.S.  and  Soviet  officials 
met  for  the  first  time  at  Harvard  in  October  1987. 

Taking  full  advantage  of  the  heady  wind  of 
President  Mikhail  Gorbachev's  glasnost,  the  project 
sailed  into  uncharted  Russian  waters.  The  Soviets 
became  openly  involved  in  the  critical  oral  history 
of  the  missile  crisis.  McNamara  said  Soviet  offi- 
cials at  the  meetings  described  the  delivery  of 
nuclear  weapons  to  Cuba  as  "an  act  of  adventur- 
ism without  consideration  of  the  consequences." 
Glasnost  opened  the  flow  of  information  to  the  pro- 
ject's participants.  A  clearer  picture  began  to 
emerge,  as  Blight  says,  as  to  how  "a  man  and  a 


light  and  the  U.S.-Russia-Cuba  project 
moved  south  to  Providence  in  1990,  broadening  its 
scope  to  include  the  whole  range  of  issues  con- 
tributing to  what  has  become  known  as  the  "tan- 
gled triangle"  of  relations  between  Washington, 
Moscow,  and  Havana.  A  May  1990  plan- 
ning meeting  held  at  Brown  brought 
U.S.,  Soviet,  and  Cuban 

researchers  together,  resulting 
■^      in  an  agreement  to  pursue  a 
W      much  larger  triangular  confer- 
ence. 

On  the  Caribbean  island  of 
Antigua  in  January  1991,  the  next 
conference  marked  the  first  three- 
way  discussion  of  the  missile  crisis 
based  on  historical  data.  In  addition, 
Americans,  Soviets,  and  Cubans  had  the 
opportunity  to  confront  one  another 
about  their  mutual  responsibility  for  the 
abnormal  -  and  what  had  proven  to  be 
potentially  dangerous  -  relationships  that  had 
evolved.  And,  the  groundwork  was  laid  for  a  final 
meeting  in  Havana. 

The  Antigua  meeting  concluded  with  one 
American  demand:  If  a  Havana  conference  was  to 
take  place,  reciprocity  must  rule.  "If  U.S.  veterans 
of  the  period  were  going  to  discuss  with  President 
Castro  the  most  difficult  and  incriminating  of  sub- 
jects like  covert  actions,"  explained  Blight,  "then 
the  president  must  come  prepared  to  discuss 
Cuban  contributions  to  the  Cold  War  climate  of 
the  day,  such  as  subversion  of  hemispheric  gov- 


36  /  MARCH  1992 


Project  director 
James  Blight 
(standing)  was  the 
moderator  at  the 
press  conference, 
and  former  defense 
secretary  Robert 
McNamara  was  a 
participant. 


Nikita  Khrushchev's 
son,  Sergei,  has 
written  extensively 
about  the  missile 
crisis. 


ernments,  hostile  anti-U.S. 
rhetoric,  and  especially 
the  issue  of  Soviet  mili- 
tary influence  on  Cuba." 
The  delegation  would  eventually  learn  that 
Castro  had  not  abandoned  his  allegiance  to  Marx- 
ist-Leninist philosophy.  As  the  ideological  tectonic 
plates  beneath  the  former  Soviet  Union  have  shift- 
ed toward  democracy,  Castro  has  become  an 
anachronism  of  the  1990s.  The  Cuban  economy  is 
in  chaos.  The  U.S.  embargo  and  the  catastrophic 
decline  of  Soviet  aid  to  Havana  have  pushed  Cuba 
into  painful  austerity. 

Without  Soviet  patronage,  Cuba  may  be  forced 
to  look  north  for  assistance.  Assuaging  his  still 
influential  audience,  Castro  made  a  significant 
public  policy  about-face,  repudiating  one  tenet  cen- 
tral to  his  thirty-three-year  presidency  -  that  Cuba 
must  actively  support  revolutionary  movements 
abroad.  "Times  have  changed,"  Castro  said  at  the 
conference.  "Military  aid  outside  our  borders  is  a 
thing  of  the  past.  The  most  important  task  is  to  live 
by  the  accepted  norms  of  international  behavior." 


A 


it  the  sessions  in  Havana  from  January  8  to 
12,  the  angst  that  McNamara,  Schlesinger,  and  the 
other  Kennedy  aides  felt  thirty  years  before  re- 
turned. Retired  Soviet  General  Anatoly  Gribkov 
disclosed  that  the  Soviet  Union  had  had  43,000 
troops  in  Cuba  during  the  missile  crisis,  not  10,000, 
as  reported  by  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency. 
But  even  more  numbing  were  new  Soviet  revela- 
tions about  short-range  nuclear  weapons. 

Gribkov,  the  former  operations  director  for  the 
Soviet  high  command  who  would  later  go  on  to 
lead  all  Warsaw  Pact  forces,  revealed  that  in  addi- 


tion to  the  twenty-four  launchers  for  the  interme- 
diate-range ballistic  missiles,  thirty-six  atomic 
warheads  were  already  in  Cuba  by  that  October. 
The  CIA  had  believed  that  just  twenty  were  still 
aboard  ship,  steaming  for  Havana,  when  the  crisis 
began. 

The  Kennedy  Administration  had  known  from 
photographs  taken  by  its  U-2  aerial  reconnaissance 
planes  that  there  were  also  short-range  missiles  in 
Cuba.  The  Luna  missile,  what  the  U.S.  military 
designates  the  Frog,  is  a  battlefield  weapon  with  a 
range  of  about  thirty  miles. 

What  the  U.S.  hadn't  known  was  that  the  six 
mobile  launchers  and  nine  missiles  in  Cuba  had 
been  armed  with  nuclear  warheads,  each  with  the 
explosive  power  of  six  to  twelve  kilotons  -  6,000  to 
12,000  tons  of  TNT  -  only  slightly  smaller  than  the 
U.S.  bomb  that  destroyed  Hiroshima  in  August  1945. 

Perhaps  more  important  was  Gribkov's  revela- 
tion that  Soviet  commanders  were  free  to  launch 
the  Lunas  to  repel  an  American  invasion. 

"Never  in  my  wildest  imagination  would  I 
have  believed  there  were  tactical  nuclear  weapons 
in  Cuba,  and  the  Soviets'  authority  had  been  dele- 
gated to  the  field  commander  to  use  them,"  McNa- 
mara said  after  the  Havana  meeting.  "That  was 
totally  new  information  and  very,  very  frightening." 

McNamara  said  he  was  "99  percent  certain  of 
the  outcome"  if  a  U.S.  invasion  of  Cuba  had  been 
launched,  as  many  of  President  Kennedy's  advi- 
sors recommended  on  October  27  and  28.  Adm. 
Robert  L.  Dennison,  who  would  have  commanded 
an  attack  as  chief  of  the  U.S.  Atlantic  Command, 
had  notified  McNamara  and  the  Joint  Chiefs  that 
he  was  equipping  his  forces  with  battlefield  nucle- 
ar weapons.  He  had  received  unconfirmed  intelli- 

continued  on  page  46 


BROWN  ALUMNI   MONTHLY  /  37 


wv» 


./ 


.  . .  No  pleasanter 
evening  can  be  spent 
than  with  a  telescope 
enjoying  the  beauties 
of  the  universe. 

-  PROFESSOR  WINSLOW  UPTON,  SPEAKING 
AT  THE  DEDICATION  OF  THE  LADD 
OBSERVATORY  ON  OCTOBER  21,  1891 


By  Bruce  Fellman 


Enchanted 


venings 

Ladd  Observatory  Turns  100 


Photographs 
by  John  Foraste 

Illustration  by 
Sandra  Reinbold 


Ulf 


ow  - 1  see  that.  . . .  How  far 
away  is  that?  It's  gorgeous!  It's 
so  great  I  can't  even  believe  it!" 

Joe,  who's  no  more  than  six  and  up  way  past 
his  bedtime,  is  mesmerized  as  he  peers  at  a  star 
called  Vega  through  the  lens  of  the  historic  tele- 
scope at  the  Ladd  Observatory.  One  hundred  years 
ago,  Brown  astronomer  Winslow  Upton  and  a  host 
of  luminaries  celebrated  the  opening  of  the  Hope 
Street  facility,  which  crowned  "Tin  Top  Hill"  -  a 
dump  for  tin  cans  -  and  at  the  time  afforded  view- 
ers an  excellent  look  at  the  heavens.  One  hundred 
years  after  the  doors  were  opened  and  the  telescope 
saw  its  first  light,  the  observatory  continues  to 
give  University  students  and  community  members 
like  Joe  a  window,  albeit  smudged,  on  the  universe. 

The  masonry  and  wood  building,  along  with 
a  wealth  of  scientific  instruments,  was  a  gift  from 
Herbert  Warren  Ladd,  the  governor  of  Rhode 
Island.  "It  was  a  premier  astronomical  facility  that 
could  handle  anything  required  of  a  nineteenth- 
century  observatory,"  explains  astronomer  David 
M.  Targan,  Ladd's  seventh  director  and  an  assis- 
tant dean  of  the  College.  "And  it  was  dedicated  to 
research,  teaching,  and  public  service." 

Unfortunately,  air  pollution  and  electric  lights 
soon  obscured  the  skies  over  Providence,  so  it  was 
never  possible  to  make  significant  discoveries  at 
Ladd.  But  though  progress  prevented  much 
research  there,  the  observatory  has  more  than  ful- 


filled its  two  other  mandates,  Targan  says. 

Generations  of  students  have  studied  the  cos- 
mos at  Ladd,  and  interest  in  astronomy  courses  is 
strong.  Undergraduates  use  the  facility  for  a  vari- 
ety of  purposes,  and  on  a  recent  visit,  a  group  of 
late-nighters  were  busv  sketching  the  rings  of  Sat- 
urn, while  other  students  were  comparing  the 
observations  they'd  made  through  the  telescope 
with  what  they'd  seen  when  they  looked  through 
a  small  scope  the  size  of  Galileo's. 

In  addition,  Ladd  hosts  courses  sponsored  by 
the  Brown  Learning  Community.  Over  its  centurv- 
long  existence,  the  observatory  also  has  offered  a 
myriad  of  educational  and  practical  services  to 
Providence  and  the  surrounding  community,  not 
the  least  of  which  is  giving  Joe  and  countless  other 
kids  a  chance  to  get  starlight  in  their  eyes. 

"Curiosity  brings  people  out  here,"  notes 
Francine  Jackson,  an  enthusiastic  amateur  astrono- 
mer who  for  the  last  twenty  years  has  coordinated 
the  observatory's  Wednesday-night  public  sky- 
watching  sessions.  "Sometimes,  it's  people  who've 
seen  the  building  and  have  no  idea  what  it  is,  so 
when  they  see  the  doors  open,  they  just  come  right 
in.  We  also  have  a  lot  of  regulars  -  this  has  become 
a  meeting  place  for  local  amateurs.  And  often,  we 
get  parents  with  their  children,  because  this  is  a 
great  place  to  quench  a  kid's  thirst  for  science  and 
to  introduce  everyone  to  the  beauty  of  the  night- 
time sky." 


BROWN   ALUMNI   MONTHLY  /  39 


The  Observatory's  dome 
opens  (right),  and  its 
twelve-inch  refracting 
telescope  gains  access 
to  a  sky  full  of  stars. 
Made  of  brass  and  other 
metal,  the  telescope 
measures  fifteen  feet 
long.  "The  scope  is 
genuinely  beautiful, " 
says  an  astronomer  who 
worked  with  it  in 
the  1980s. 

Below:  a  detail  of  the 
spectroscope  attached  to 
the  telescope. 


Then-Chancellor  of  the  University  William 
Goddard  would  surelv  approve.  At  the  dedication 
ceremonies,  he  spoke  eloquently  about  the  univer- 
sal appeal  of  the  cosmos. 

"Only  to  those  who  realize  how  close  is  the 
relation  of  the  study  of  astronomy  to  the  common 
life  of  man  is  the  worth  of  an  observatory  appar- 
ent. We  know  how  much  the  best  literature  of  the 
world  owes  to  the  heavenly  bodies.  The  Psalmist's 
loftiest  flights  of  poetic  inspiration  were  toward 
the  sun  and  the  moon  and  the  stars,  which  declared 
the  glorv  of  their  Creator,  and  in  every  age  and  in 
everv  language  the  poet  and  the  moralist  have 
found  in  them  forms  of  passionless  beauty  and 
emblems  of  spiritual  grace,"  Goddard  noted. 

Then  he  shifted  gears,  and  briefly  outlined  the 
observatory's  practical  task.  "But  it  is  through 
the  aid  of  the  science  of  astronomy  that  the  paths 
through  the  great  waters  are  made  clear,  that 
the  boundaries  of  space  are  established  and  time 
itself  is  measured  and  divided." 


40  /   MARCH  1912 


J 


And  time  itself  is  measured  and  divided. 
Figuring  out  accurate  ways  to  repre- 
sent the  passage  of  time  was  one  of  the  primary 
reasons  people  studied  the  sky,  and  the  invention 
of  precision  clocks  in  the  eighteenth  century  did 
nothing  to  diminish  the  importance  of  this  activity. 
In  fact,  the  need  to  determine  whether  or  not 
clocks  were  actually  on  time  was  a  major  selling 
point  for  the  creation  and  continuation  of  many 
an  observatory,  including  Ladd. 

"Clocks  could  be  checked  against  the  stars," 
Targan  explains,  adding  that  accuracy,  or  what 
came  to  be  called  standard  time,  became  an  issue  in 
the  last  half  of  the  nineteenth  century  because  of 
the  demands  of  railroad  schedules.  "The  observa- 
tory was  supposed  to  be  worth  having  because 
it  would  provide  a  time-keeping  service  for  Provi- 
dence. This  started  in  1891  and  continued  until 
1972,  and  it  may  be  the  longest  time-keeping  histo- 
ry of  any  observatory." 

Therein  lies  an  intriguing  tale,  one  of  many  - 


concerning  everything  from  backwards  lenses  to 
literary  ghosts  -  in  the  Ladd  history.  In  the  obser- 
vatory's early  days,  telling  Providence  when  it 
was  exactly  noon  required  both  transit  telescopes, 
which  keep  tabs  on  the  positions  of  certain  stars, 
and  extremely  accurate  clocks  |see  sidebar].  The 
idea  is  that  these  indicator  stars  pass  through  the 
crosshairs  of  the  transit  scope  once  every  day, 
which  gives  the  observer  an  astronomically  pre- 
cise standard  by  which  to  set  a  clock.  (It's  actually 
not  quite  so  simple,  because  a  star  day  is  roughly 
four  minutes  shorter  than  a  solar  day.)  Since  obser- 
vatories throughout  a  particular  time  zone  fol- 
lowed the  same  procedure,  noon  in  Providence 
was  noon  everywhere  in  the  region.  And  precisely 
at  noon,  the  official  time-keeper  at  Ladd  sent  an 
electrical  signal  to  various  points  in  the  city,  which 
enabled  clocks  throughout  the  capital  to  be  syn- 
chronized with  the  heavens. 

The  transit  observations,  conducted  in  a  wood- 
en part  of  the  observatory  where  the  roof  could  be 
opened  with  a  pulley  turned  by  a  ship's  wheel, 
continued  until  1919,  when  it  became  possible  to 
calibrate  Ladd's  clocks  to  radio  signals  sent  out 
from  key  locations  around  the  world.  Even  though 
the  transit  scopes  were  no  longer  used,  the  obser- 
vatory continued  to  let  Providence  know  when  it 
was  12  o'clock  for  more  than  another  half-century. 

"We  sent  signals  to  the  fire  department  until 
1972,  when  someone  called  them  to  ask  if  they  still 
needed  the  time  service,"  notes  Targan.  "They 
said,  'What  time  service?',  which  means  that  for 
who-knows-how-many  years,  we  were  sending 
out  a  signal  no  one  was  using,  or  even  aware  of." 

While  its  time-keeping  history  may  not  be  one 
for  the  Guinness  Book  of  World  Records,  the  Ladd 
Observatory  otherwise  seems  to  have  justified  its 
namesake's  investment  of  approximately  $30,000. 

"They  built  the  place  to  last,"  says  Targan.  Still 
in  use  after  100  years  are  the  observer's  ladders; 
the  nineteen-foot-diameter,  copper-clad  dome;  the 
hand-cranked  clock  drive  that  keeps  the  telescope 
centered  on  one  object;  and  the  hand-pulled  ropes 
and  pulleys  that  turn  the  observatory  dome. 

"This  is  aerobic  astronomy,"  quips  Targan.  "I 
get  my  workout  when  I  use  the  facility." 

The  observatory's  crown  jewel  was  -  and  is  -  a 
twelve-inch  refracting  telescope  whose  main  lens 
was  ground  bv  John  A.  Brashear,  a  famed  Pitts- 
burgh craftsman.  "This  is  a  majestic  telescope," 
notes  John  Briggs,  an  engineer  at  the  famed  Yerkes 
Observatory  in  Wisconsin,  who  spent  a  lot  of  time 
at  Ladd  in  the  1970s  and  eighties  peering  through 
the  fifteen-foot-long  brass  and  metal  instrument. 

Briggs,  who  is  also  a  historian  of  astronomical 
equipment  and  facilities,  got  to  know  Ladd  as  a 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  41 


Astronomy  and  horology  -  the 
study  of  time  and  time-keeping  - 
have  had  a  parallel  existence  throughout  their 
history.  In  fact,  many  of  the  great  astronomers 
were  horologists  as  well/'  says  Michael  L. 
Passano,  the  volunteer  clock  expert  at  Ladd. 

Passano, 
who  works  for 
Wells  Fargo, 
explains  that  the 
Observatory's 
clock  vault  houses 
three  precision 
time-keeping 
instruments,  each 
of  which  is  more 
than  ninety  years 
old.  The  "master 
clock"  was  made 
by  Sigmund 
Riefler,  a  premier 
German  engineer 
whose  timepieces 
were  standard 
features  in  most  of 
the  world's  obser- 
vatories. The 
Riefler,  a  gift  from 
the  class  of  1875,  was  considered  "state  of  the 
art"  in  its  day,  and  Ladd's  two  regulator-type 
clocks  -  one  made  by  Robert  Molyneux,  the 
other  by  Edward  Howard  -  were  extremely 
accurate.  In  addition,  Ladd  owns  an  exceeding- 
ly unusual,  grandfather-type  clock  designed  by 
Hezekiah  Conant,  a  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island, 
textile  manufacturer.  It  tracks  star  time  and 
solar  time,  and  it  uses  a  unique  "duplex  differ- 
ential" mechanism  to  link  the  two  modes.  This 
enables  the  clock  to  track  the  position  of  the 
sun  and  moon  through  the  zodiac. 

Passano,  who  had  been  repairing  clocks 
and  watches  since  he  was  ten,  first  came  face- 
to-face  with  Ladd's  timepieces  in  1973.  The 
fourteen-year-old  was  stunned  by  what  he 
saw.  "I  felt  as  though  I'd  been  whisked  off  to 
a  horologist's  playground,"  he  recalls,  "but  I 
was  saddened,  because  the  clocks  were  not 


operating.  I  knew  deep  down  inside  that  some 
day  that  would  change." 

In  1985,  he  took  charge  of  the  work.  The 
Howard  and  Molyneux  regulators  were  in 
good  shape,  and  restoring  them  was  a  relatively 
straightforward  task.  The  same  was  true  with 
the  Conant  clock  (for  history's  sake,  Passano 
didn't  replace  a  pickle  jar  that  was  pressed  into 
service  as  a  mercury-filled  pendulum  when 
the  original  broke). 

The  internal  workings  of  the  Riefler,  how- 
ever, were  damaged  beyond  repair,  so  Passano, 
assisted  by  Horace  Stoddard,  a  Massachusetts 
horologist,  found  a  rare  book  containing  plans 
for  the  necessary  parts  and  built  them  from 
scratch.  The  clock  now  keeps  time  to  within 
one-hundredth  of  a  second  per  day.  "It  beats 
my  quartz  watch,"  says  Passano,  whose  fas- 
cination keeps  him  tinkering. 

"As  I  look  at  them  ticking  the  hours  away, 
I  think  about  what's  gone  on  in  the  past  and 
what  will  come  in  the  future,  while  these 
instruments  are  still  recording  time,"  notes 
the  horologist,  explaining  his  fascination. 
"Clocks  are  the  closest  thing  to  the  Aquarian 
desire  for  a  time  machine." 
-B.F. 


42  /  MARCH  1992 


BROWN  ARCHIVES 


Professor  Winslow 
Upton  (above), 
director  of  Ladd 
from  1890-1914, 
threatened  to 
quit  the  Brown 
faculty  unless 
he  was  given  an 
observatory. 


member  of  "Skyscrapers,"  a  Rhode  Island  astrono- 
my club  that  began  at  the  observatory  more  than 
fifty  years  ago.  "The  scope  is  genuinely  beautiful," 
he  says,  "and  what  you  can  see  through  it  is  beau- 
tiful. When  you  introduce  students  to  this  combi- 
nation of  beauty,  you  can  really  inspire  them." 

However,  Briggs's  initial  views  were  anything 
but  inspirational.  "Brashear  made  darn  good 
lenses,  but  the  first  time  I  got  a  chance  to  use  the 
telescope,  1  was  disappointed  by  the  images  I  saw. 
They  were  shockingly  crummy,"  he  notes,  "and 
they  should  have  been  great,  because  the  lens  is 
capable  of  resolving  well  under  one  arc  second  -  the 
size  of  a  basketball  thirty-nine  miles  away  -  between 
the  two  components  of  a  double  star  system." 

Briggs  tested  the  lens  and  discovered  that  it  was 
in  backwards,  which  turns  out  to  have  been  an  easy 
mistake  to  make.  "Brashear  was  noted  for  a  com- 
paratively unusual  lens  design,  and  if  you  were  un- 
acquainted with  this  historic  bit  of  trivia,  you 
might  think  the  lens  was  in  wrong,  when  in  fact  it's 
in  correct  as  Brashear  made  it,"  says  Briggs,  who 
explains  that  the  error  probably  occurred  during 
one  of  the  lens's  periodic  cleanings. 

Precisely  how  long  the  telescope  had  been  both 
astigmatic  and  near-sighted  is  impossible  to  know, 
but  once  Briggs  rectified  the  problem  in  the  early 
1980s,  the  lens's  performance  improved  dramati- 
cally. "We  were  rewarded  with  some  of  the  best 
views  of  Mars  we'd  ever  had,  along  with  spectacu- 
lar sightings  of  Saturn's  rings,"  Briggs  notes. 


he  rewards  continue,  as  both  Brown 
astronomy  students  and  southern  New 
England  residents  flock  to  the  observatory  [see 
sidebar,  "Happy  100th  Birthday"].  "We're  open 
most  clear  nights,"  says  Targan.  "This  is  a  very 
heavily  used  university  and  public  facility,  and  if 
there's  something  exciting  to  see,  it's  not  uncom- 
mon to  have  more  than  a  hundred  people  here." 

For  example,  Francine  Jackson  recalls  overflow 
crowds  in  1985  and  1986,  when  Halley's  Comet 
made  its  once-every-seventy-six-years  return.  "We 
really  packed  them  in,"  she  notes,  adding  that  the 
comet's  popularity  posed  something  of  a  problem. 

In  its  last  go-round,  Hallev  was  a  dud,  so  she 
and  fellow  astronomer  Roger  Menard,  who  has 
manned  the  telescope  since  the  early  1970s,  along 
with  the  volunteers  who  staff  the  observatory,  had 
to  avoid  raising  anyone's  hopes.  "We  built  it  up  as 
a  disappointment,"  Jackson  explains,  "and  so 
whatever  visitors  saw  was  better  than  the  nothing 
they  expected.  People  were  happy  they  could  see 
something  to  tell  their  great-grandkids  about  sev- 
enty-five years  from  now." 

Planets,  bright  stars,  a  meteor  shower,  the 
moon,  and  maybe  a  stray  comet  or  two  .  .  .  Sky 
conditions  may  be  less  than  excellent,  but  there  is 
still  plenty  to  observe  and  learn.  In  fact,  light  pol- 
lution and  smog  may  help  the  learning  process. 
"Only  the  brightest  stars  shine  through  the  haze, 
so  this  is  one  of  the  best  places  to  learn  the  con- 
stellations," says  Jackson.  "If  you  tell  people 


BKOVVN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY        41 


xactly  100  years,  four  hours,  and  thirty 
minutes  after  a  stellar  assemblage 
officially  opened  the  Ladd  Observatory,  an 
equally  august  group,  along  with  nearly  1,000 
well-wishers  whose  lives  had  been  touched  in 
some  way  by  the  facility,  assembled  for  a  birth- 
day celebration  complete  with  speeches,  remi- 
niscences, music,  a  cake  in  the  shape  of  the 
observatory,  and,  of  course,  skywatching. 

The  sky  was  uncooperative,  but  the  off-and- 
on-again  clouds  did  nothing  to  dampen  spirits. 

Providence's  ebullient  Mayor  Vincent  A. 
Cianci  lauded  the  observatory  as  a  "key  educa- 
tional facility  that  has  served  the  city  well."  He 
also  explained  that  Ladd  had  helped  his  recent 
re-election  bid.  "I  used  to  come  here  every 
Wednesday  night  to  look  at  the  stars  and  see 
what  kind  of  a  shot  I  had." 


Happy  lOOth  Birthday 


Jack  Lubrano  '24,  who  still  teaches  astro- 
nomy to  "youngsters"  at  retirement  homes, 
amazed  the  crowd,  which  had  assembled  in  a 
tent  set  up  next  to  the  observatory  building, 
with  his  recollections  of  Halley's  Comet  the  first 
time  it  appeared  this  century  -  in  1910,  when 
Lubrano  was  a  ten-year-old.  "That  star  with  a 
tail  was  my  first  interest  in  astronomy,"  he 
explained,  and  it  led  to  his  pursuing  the  sub- 
ject at  Brown,  where  he  peered  through  the 
same  telescope  in  use  today. 


William  Penhallow  '55,  astronomer  and 
professor  of  physics  at  the  University  of  Rhode 
Island,  told  the  audience  about  the  problems  of 
calculating  the  paths  of  solar  eclipses,  work  he 
did  for  his  Brown  mentor,  Charles  H.  Smiley. 
"Most  of  you  don't  appreciate  what  you  have 
in  personal  computers,"  said  Penhallow.  "We 
had  to  do  the  calculations  on  adding  machines, 
and  many  times  I  remember  walking  back  to 
campus  down  Hope  Street  as  the  dawn  broke." 

Phillip  ].  Stiles,  dean  of  the  Graduate 
School  and  dean  of  research,  directed  the 
observatory  from  1970  to  1986,  and  he  is  credit- 
ed with  Ladd's  resurrection.  "The  facility  had 
been  going  downhill  for  quite  some  time,  and 
in  1970, 1  came  into  a  deserted  building  that 
was  filled  with  scientific  treasures.  But  it  was 
sad  -  the  telescope  didn't  work,"  says  Stiles.  So 
as  a  family  project,  he,  his  wife,  and  their  six 
children  cleaned  the  place  up,  and  once  the 
dirty  work  was  done,  he  opened  Ladd's  doors 
to  the  public  every  Wednesday  night. 

Physicist  Hendrik  J.  Gerritsen,  observatory 
director  from  1986-89,  spoke  as  eloquently 
about  the  value  of  viewing  the  heavens  as  did 
University  Chancellor  William  Goddard  100 
years  earlier.  "Astronomy  does  important 
things  for  the  human  spirit,  and  it  encourages 
us  to  look  at  our  own  planet  in  a  new  way," 
Gerritsen  said.  "All  the  other  planets,  however 
beautiful,  are  barren  and  lifeless,  and  that  fact 
should  make  it  hard  to  commit  violence  and 
waste  our  wonderfully  unique  life." 
-B.F. 


there's  a  triangle  in  the  sky,  that's  all  they  can  see, 
so  they  can  get  the  prominent  shapes  and  patterns 
fixed  in  their  minds." 

Ladd's  open-door  policy  dates  from  Winslow 
Upton,  whose  threat  to  quit  the  faculty  unless  he 
got  an  observatory  prompted  Governor  Ladd's 
gift.  "Upton  was  more  a  public  astronomer  and 
teacher  than  a  researcher,"  says  Arthur  Hoag  '42, 
recently-retired  director  of  the  prestigious  Lowell 
Observatory  in  Flagstaff,  Arizona.  In  1940,  Hoag 
lived  at  Ladd,  where,  in  exchange  for  looking  after 
the  furnace  and  calibrating  the  clocks,  he  got  a  free 
room  in  the  basement,  complete  with  a  cot  and  a 
sink.  "It  was  a  little  on  the  spartan  side,  but  it  was 
a  boon  as  far  as  money  was  concerned,"  he  recalls 
with  a  laugh. 

Hoag,  like  his  predecessors  and  successors, 
was  deeply  involved  with  the  open-night  program. 


"People  were  excited,  and  I  was  excited  by  the 
whole  business  myself,"  he  explains.  "Ladd  was 
the  center  of  amateur  activities  in  town." 

One  of  the  early  amateurs  was  none  other  than 
Providence  author  Howard  Phillips  Lovecraft, 
the  master  of  the  macabre.  Upton  was  a  Lovecraft 
family  friend,  and  young  H.P.  was  a  devoted  stu- 
dent of  the  heavens  who  planned  to  follow  in  his 
mentor's  astronomical  footsteps.  The  acolyte  had 
the  run  of  the  observatory,  and  as  a  teenager  he 
wrote  surprisingly  sophisticated  columns  about 
astronomy  in  the  local  papers.  Alas,  his  journalistic 
skill  did  not  help  him  pass  algebra,  a  failure  that 
precluded  his  attending  Brown.  The  young  man 
apparently  was  so  crushed  that  he  never  set  foot 
in  the  observatory  again. 

At  least,  not  in  the  flesh.  Some  sav  his  despon- 
dent spirit  haunts  the  place. 


44  /  MARCH   1992 


on  thi'  National  Register  of  Historic  Places.  "It's  a 
beautifully  preserved  example  of  a  late-nineteenth 
century  observatory,"  says  John  Briggs.  "Such 
places  are  becoming  all  too  rare,  especially  in  terms 
of  being  complete  with  their  original  equipment  - 
the  telescope,  the  clocks,  the  spectroscopes,  and 
the  transit  instruments." 

Inclusion  in  the  National  Register  would  cele- 
brate the  observatory's  importance  in  the  history 
of  American  science  and  technology.  It  would  also 
help  secure  the  funds  required  to  keep  the  facility 
in  good  shape  for  the  next  100  years. 

".  .  .  (T)he  future  of  astronomy  is  going  to 
depend  largely  upon  America  during  the  next  half 
a  century,"  noted  E.C.  Pickering,  director  of  the 
Harvard  Observatory,  speaking  at  Ladd's  opening 
ceremonies.  Pickering  had  been  to  Europe  and 
noticed  that  the  European  commitment  to  science 
was  faltering  as  the  twentieth  century  approached. 
Our  time  for  eminence  was  at  hand,  he  told  the 
audience,  and  the  Ladd  Observatory  was  an  apt 
symbol  of  our  scientific  and  technological  prowess. 
"We  have  a  great  future  before  us,"  he  said. 

Apt  words,  then  and  now.    ED 


The  Observatory's 
seventh  director, 
Assistant  Dean  of 
the  College  David 
Targan,  poses  in 
Ladd's  transit  room 
with  the  two 
transit  telescopes, 
which  once  were 
used  to  calculate 
the  exact  time 
from  the  positions 
of  certain  stars. 


Since  Lovecraft's  day,  other  amateur  astron- 
omers have  "haunted"  the  observatory  in  a  differ- 
ent way.  Over  the  years,  they've  worked  with  the 
Brashear  telescope  and  taught  their  science  to  the 
public.  They've  also  built  sophisticated  instruments 
such  as  the  Schmidt  and  Schwarzschild  cameras 
that  the  late  Charles  H.  Smiley,  Ladd's  director 
(1931-1970)  and  "Mr.  Astronomy"  at  Brown,  used 
in  the  solar  eclipse  research  that  took  him  to  the  far 
corners  of  the  Earth  and  even  above  it  in  jet  aircraft. 

"Amateurs  have  made  major  contributions," 
notes  Hoag.  Today,  volunteers  like  Jackson  and 
Menard  are  the  heart  and  soul  of  the  observatory, 
and  a  recently  formed,  Ladd-associated  group 
called  the  Celestial  Observers  of  Rhode  Island  is 
building  a  new  telescope  that  will  be  based  on 
land  Brown  owns  in  the  dark-sky  country  atop 
Jerimoth  Hill,  in  western  Rhode  Island. 


And  so  the  observatory  goes  into  its 
second  century. 
Last  spring,  NASA  gave  Brown  a  four-year, 
$600,000  "space  grant"  designed  in  part  to  increase 
public  awareness  and  education  in  astronomy  and 
the  space  sciences.  "Ladd  is  going  to  play  a  big 
role  in  this  effort,"  says  Targan. 

There's  a  push  to  get  the  Hope  Street  facility 


This  old  wooden  shipping  box  found  in  the  attic 
was  used  to  transport  astronomical  instruments 
by  Charles  Smiley,  Ladd's  director  from  1931-70, 
on  his  eclipse  expedition  to  Karachi,  Pakistan. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  45 


Thirteen  Days  in  1962 

continued  from  page  37 


Historian  Arthur 
Schlesingerwasa 
Kennedy  aide. 


gence  that  the  Soviet  Lunas  were  nuclear  tipped. 
"The  Chiefs  and  I  discussed  it,  and  we  said  abso- 
lutely not,"  McNamara  recalled. 

"So  we  would  have  had  a  U.S.  force,  without 
nuclear  warheads,  confronting  a  Soviet  force  with 
nuclear  warheads.  What  would  we  have  done? 
I  don't  know.  We  hadn't  even  thought  about  it," 
said  an  anxious  McNamara. 

In  the  complex  and  often  philosophical  busi- 
ness of  nuclear  arms  control,  where  theories  of 
deterrence  and  stability  take  on  an  almost  reli- 
gious significance,  simplistic  thinking  is  viewed  as 
dangerous.  This  is  how  historian  Schlesinger 
viewed  the  Havana  revelations.  "We  didn't  know 
the  tactical  warheads  were  there.  How  could  they 
have  been  a  deterrent?  It  was  so  simplistic,"  he 
said.  "It  would  never  have  entered  our  minds  that 
they  had  only  nine  weapons  that  they  were  firing 
at  us.  We  would  have  thought  that  thev  had  nine- 
ty or  900  and  we  would  have  responded  very 


heavily.  And  where  would  it  have  ended?  I  don't 
know.  The  whole  thing  is  just  beyond  belief.  I  can't 
explain  it  today." 

Neither  Schlesinger  nor  McNamara  believed 
President  Kennedy  would  have  invaded  -  at  least 
not  immediately.  Contrary  to  statements  made  by 
several  of  their  colleagues,  both  men  said  the  Pres- 
ident had  made  no  promises  to  the  Joint  Chiefs  to 
invade.  "He  had  alternatives;  he  recognized  the 
gravity  of  an  invasion,"  Schlesinger  said. 


T 


hose  thirteen  days  were  as  close  as  the  super- 
powers have  ever  come  to  nuclear  confrontation. 
And  as  McNamara  pointed  out,  "the  actions  of  the 
three  parties  were  shaped  by  misjudgments,  mis- 
calculations, and  misinformation."  Even  conflicts 
resolved  diplomatically  are  too  close  for  the 
world's  comfort  when  the  adversaries  are  armed 
with  atomic  weapons. 

"In  the  nuclear  age,  such  mistakes  could  be 
disastrous,"  McNamara  warned,  adding  that  "it  is 
not  possible  to  predict  with  confidence  the  conse- 
quences of  military  action  of  great  powers.  There- 
fore, we  must  achieve  crisis  avoidance.  That 
requires  that  we  put  ourselves  in  each  other's  shoes." 

At  the  January  1989  meeting  in  Moscow, 
McNamara  asked  Gromyko  why  the  Soviet  Union 
had  sent  nuclear  warheads  to  the  tiny  island  of 
Cuba.  After  all,  the  Soviets'  arsenal  of  strategic 
sabres  could  easily  hit  any  target  in  the  United 
States  in  less  than  a  half  hour.  The  missiles  were 
placed  in  Cuba  "to  strengthen  the  defensive  capa- 
bility of  Cuba  -  that  is  all,"  Gromyko  replied. 

"I  said,  'When  you  say  defense  of  Cuba,'  that's 
clearly  in  anticipation  of  a  U.S.  invasion,"  McNa- 
mara responded,  acknowledging  that  "if  I  had 
been  a  Cuban  or  Soviet  official,  I  believe  I  would 
have  shared  the  judgment  expressed  that  a  U.S. 
invasion  was  probable." 

Added  McGeorge  Bundy,  Kennedy's  national 
security  advisor  during  the  crisis:  "Much  of  the 
trouble  arose  from  a  failure  of  communication. 
You  failed  to  understand  in  the  Soviet  Union  that 
we  were  not  going  to  invade  the  island  of  Cuba. 
That  was  partly  our  mistake,  too,  since  we  failed  to 
understand  your  fears." 

October  1962  remains  a  Cold  War  reminder  of 
the  dangers  of  the  nuclear  age.  As  Blight  told  the 
press  conference  audience,  the  world  community 
must  applv  the  same  principle  to  such  close  calls 
as  it  does  to  the  bombing  of  Hiroshima:  "Never 
again."  □ 

Larry  Grossman  is  a  freelance  -writer  in  Washington, 
D.C. 


Books 


By  James  Reinbold 


Closely  watched  teachers 

In  There  With  The  Kids:  Teaching  in 
Today's  Classrooms  by  David  Kobrin  '62. 
(Houghton  Mifflin  Company,  Boston, 
1992).  $19.95. 

"It  is  difficult  to  imagine  how  complex 
teaching  is  if  you  haven't  done  it  your- 
self," David  Kobrin  writes  in  the  intro- 
duction to  his  book  In  There  With  The 
Kids.  "Classroom  teaching  means  almost 
constant  interpersonal  interactions,  often 
intense  interactions,  student  to  student, 
teacher  to  student,  and  students  to 
teacher." 

The  great  majority  of  us  spend  our 
thirteen  vears  of  private  or  public  school- 
ing behind  the  little  desk;  then,  as  par- 
ents of  children,  we  speak  to  our  chil- 
dren's teachers  as  parent  to  teacher.  If 
we  have  a  sense  of  humor,  at  parent- 
teacher  conference  night,  we  squeeze 
our  adult  body  into  the  seat  behind  the 
little  desk  once  more  for  old  time's  sake. 
Few  of  us  ever  have  the  opportunity  to 
run  a  classroom. 

Kobrin,  a  clinical  professor  of  educa- 
tion at  Brown,  opens  the  door  to  the 
classroom  and  puts  the  reader  in  the 
shoes  of  the  teacher  -  and  behind  the 
big  desk  -  by  creating  two  fictionalized 
teachers:  the  confident,  nine-year  veteran 
Mel  Stainko;  and  the  third-year  teacher, 
Hilary  Coles.  Their  day-to-day  triumphs 
and  shortcomings  evoke  the  rich  -  and 
difficult  and  exhausting  -  experience 
that  is  teaching.  The  next  time  someone 
complains  about  how  easy  teachers 
have  it,  what  with  those  long  vacations 
and  summers  off,  refer  him  or  her  to 
In  There  With  The  Kids. 

Books  about  teaching  are  no  substi- 
tute for  being  in  the  trenches,  and  Kobrin 
readily  admits  that  fact.  But  fiction  can 
afford  a  concentrated  veracity,  he  argues, 
and  the  experiences  faced  by  the  two 
fictitious  classroom  teachers  as  they 
plow  through  the  school  year  are  more 
intense  and,  in  a  sense,  more  real  (and 
instructive)  than,  perhaps,  the  literary 
equivalent  of  a  documentary  or  a  text  on 
how  to  teach. 

"I  believe  it's  easier  to  learn  about  a 
complicated  moral  craft  like  teaching  if 


THERE 


K9BRIN 


you  start  with  a  visceral,  concrete,  elab- 
orate involvement  in  the  subject  before 
moving  on  to  theoretical  questions," 
Kobrin  writes.  "Fiction  is  a  device  by 
which  readers  can  become  involved  with 
the  concrete  and  the  real." 

Brown  Professor  Ted  Sizer  has  writ- 
ten a  preface  to  the  book. 

The  whaler' s  art 

Dictionary  of  Scrimshaw  Artists  by  Stuart 
Frank  '85  Ph.D.  (Mystic  Seaport  Muse- 
um, Mystic,  Connecticut,  1991).  $55; 
$125  for  a  signed,  numbered  collector's 
edition. 

One  of  the  first  books  I  reviewed  on 
these  pages  was  Stuart  Frank's  Herman 
Melville's  Picture  Gallery  (Edward  J.  Lef- 
kowicz,  Inc.,  Fairhaven,  Massachusetts, 
1986),  a  fascinating  study  of  the  pictorial 
images  that  served  as  inspiration  and 
illumination  for  some  of  the  chapters  of 
Moby  Dick. 

Dictionary  of  Scrimshaw  Artists, 
Frank's  latest  book,  is  the  first  scrimshaw 
(carved  articles  from  whale  bone  or 
whale  ivory)  compendium,  with  docu- 
mented biographical  sketches  of  artisans, 
a  glossary,  a  taxonomic  and  geographi- 
cal index,  an  index  of  public  repositories, 
an  index  of  vessels,  and  an  extensive 
bibliography.  In  the  introductory  essay, 
Frank  traces  the  evolution  of  scrimshaw 
art  since  the  Viking  era.  Norman  Flay- 
derman,  renowned  scrimshaw  authority, 
has  written  a  foreword. 

Frank  is  director  of  The  Kendall 
Whaling  Museum,  Sharon,  Massachu- 
setts, which  houses  the  world's  preemi- 
nent collection  of  scrimshaw,  along  with 
an  outstanding  collection  of  paintings 
and  prints,  logs  and  journals,  and  ethno- 
logical artifacts  representing  six  centuries 
of  whaling  history  on  all  seven  continents. 


Warfare  101 

The  Skulking  Wayoj  War:  Technology  and 
Tactics  Among  the  New  England  Indians 
by  Patrick  M.  Malone  '90  Ph.D.  (Madi 
son  Books,  Lanham,  Maryland,  1941). 
$29.95. 

Vietnam  and  Afghanistan  are  among 
the  most  recent  examples  of  how  "skulk- 
ing" -  or  guerrilla  warfare  -  is  the 
most  effective  means  for  a  smaller,  less- 
equipped  military  force  to  render 
inoperative,  or  defeat,  a  larger,  better- 
equipped  military  force.  Malone  quotes 
Neil  Sheehan,  who  wrote  in  A  Bright 
Shining  Lie:  ]ohn  Paul  Vann  and  America 
in  Vietnam,  "[Military  advisors  in  Viet- 
nam in  19621  hoped  that  the  guerrillas 
would  one  day  be  foolish  enough  to 
abandon  their  skulking  ways  and  fight 
fairly  in  a  stand-up  battle." 

Malone's  book  looks  at  combat  in 
New  England  in  the  seventeenth  century, 
and  examines  how  Native  Americans 
shook  the  confidence  of  the  colonists  - 
with  their  European  concept  of  total  war 
-  and  forced  them  to  adopt  the  ways  of 
forest  warfare.  In  later  colonial  wars 
and  the  American  Revolution,  colonists 
would  refine  and  develop  their  new- 
found skills  to  defeat  their  English  op- 
pressors. 

Malone  is  a  senior  lecturer  in  Ameri- 
can Civilization  at  Brown.  He  was  direc- 
tor of  the  Slater  Mill  Historic  Site  in 
Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island,  for  fifteen 
years;  is  a  past  president  of  the  Society 
for  Industrial  Archeology;  and  is  the 
author  of  Canals  and  Industry:  Engineering 
in  Lowell,  1S21-1880. 


Testing  the  cat 

The  Official  Cat  I.Q.  Test  by  Peter  Mandel 
'81  A.M.  (HarperPerennial,  New  York, 
1991).  $6.95. 

After  answering  the  fifty-five  multiple- 
choice  questions  in  this  paperback  you 
will  find  out  how  smart  your  cat  really 
is,  as  the  book  cover  proclaims.  It  is  not 
known  if  the  author  is  working  on  a 
sequel  describing  how  to  remediate  a 
cat  that  scores  low  in  the  test.  Mandel,  a 
former  editorial  associate  of  this  maga- 
zine, is  a  freelance  writer  living  in  Paris 
with  his  wife  and  their  cat,  Chuck, 
whose  test  score  the  author  has  discreet- 
ly not  printed.  □ 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  47 


In  another  presidential  election  year,  President 
Lyndon  B.  Johnson  came  to  Brown  in  1964  to 
address  the  Bicentennial  Convocation.  During 
the  motorcade  from  the  airport  to  the  campus, 
President  Johnson  kept  stopping  along  the  way 
to  campaign.  President  Barnaby  Keeney,  riding 
with  him,  just  looked  uncomfortable. 


The  Classes 


Bv  James  Reinbold 


I 


'58). 


28 


Herbert  A.  Howard  (see  Peter  B.  Howard 


I 


29 


Phil  Smith,  Spartanburg,  S.C.,  writes  that 
he  is  in  good  health,  enjoying  his  vard  work 
and  his  bird  feeders. 


31 


M.  Virginia  Hunter  Jenkins,  Glovers- 

ville,  N.Y.,  enjoyed  being  at  the  October 
weekend  symposium  celebrating  "One  Hun- 
dred Years  of  Women  at  Brown."  "The  con- 
vocation was  the  highlight,"  she  writes. 
"Mary  Robinson  was  very  impressive.  My 
onlv  regret  was  that  so  few  of  mv  classmates 
were  there." 


32 

Our  Re 


•  Reunion  Activities  Committee  has 
been  meeting  and  has  put  together  a  won- 
derful program  for  our  60th  Reunion,  May 
22-25.  We'll  take  part  in  traditional  Re- 
union/Commencement events  such  as  the 
Brown  Bear  Buffet,  Campus  Dance,  Com- 
mencement Forums,  Pops  Concert,  Hour 
with  the  President,  and  Fifty-Plus  Luncheon. 
In  addition,  we'll  have  special  class  lun- 
cheons on  Saturday  and  Sunday  and  join  the 
women  of  1932  for  dinner  on  Saturday  night. 
A  complete  Reunion  registration  packet  will 
be  sent  out  in  late  March.  Mark  vour  calen- 
dar and  plan  to  return  to  Brown  Memorial 
Dav  weekend. 


33 


George  C.  Oliver,  Daytona  Beach,  Fla.,  is 
still  active  in  volunteer  work.  He  recentlv  fin- 
ished a  slide  show  for  Habitat  for  Humanity, 
which  the  group  uses  to  illustrate  their  talks. 
He  is  working  now  on  a  slide  show  for  Hu- 
mana Hospital's  senior  citizens'  group  activi- 
ties. George  adds  that  he  is  keeping  up  his 
swimming. 


34 


E.  Davis  Caldwell,  Chagrin  Falls,  Ohio, 
and  York  King  had  their  annual  reunion  on 
Martha's  Vineyard  this  September.  Pip 
Aldrich  '33  and  his  wife  joined  in  for  a  few 
days  to  enlarge  the  reunion. 


36 


Clinton  S.  Johnson,  Cumberland,  R.I.,  is 
chairman  of  the  Cumberland  Conservation 
Commission  and  a  member  of  the  executive 
board  of  the  Blackstone  Vallev  Tourism 
Council. 


37 


Our  55th  reunion  is  quickly  approaching. 
You  should  receive  your  Reunion  '92  regis- 
tration packet  soon.  Be  sure  to  sign  up  for 
events  and  return  your  registration  as  soon 
as  possible  so  that  we  can  finalize  our  plans. 
We  look  forward  to  seeing  you. 


38 


Robert  H.  Blewitt,  Sr.,  w  rites  that  he  is 
still  in  good  health  and  very  active.  His  ad- 
dress is  136  Store  Ave.,  Apt.  3E,  Waterburv, 
Conn.  06705. 

Dr.  Chauncey  M.  Stone  underwent  open 
heart  surgery  in  April.  He  is  recovering  very 
nicely  and  planning  to  return  to  his  practice 
of  medicine  in  South  Miami,  Fla.  Muriel  Bak- 
er Stone  "37  is  about  to  celebrate  her  55th  re- 
union and  hopes  to  be  at  Brown  for  the  big 
event.  They  live  in  Miami. 


39 


James  M.  McNamara,  Dothan,  Ala.,  is 
"enjoying  the  good  retired  life  deep  in  the 
heart  ot  Dixie."  He  visits  his  two  grand- 
daughters in  Connecticut  twice  a  year  but  is 
otherwise  busy  with  church  volunteer  work 
and  golf. 

Gertrude  Levin  Pullman,  Dallas,  writes 
that  her  grandson,  Michael,  is  a  freshman  at 


I  mot  v,  and  her  granddaughter,  Rebecca, 
is  attending  Texas  Women's  Universiu  m 
Denton. 


40 


Bernard  I.  Kahn,  El  Toro,  Calif.,  and  his 
wife  celebrated  their  50th  wedding  anniver- 
sary in  July. 


41 


David  R.  Ebbitt  and  his  wife,  Wilma 
Robb  Ebbitt  '43  Ph.D.,  spent  a  weekend  with 
Dr.  Arthur  Holleb  and  his  wile,  Carolyn,  at 
their  home  in  Larchmont,  N.Y.,  as  a  pleasant 
follow-up  to  the  50th  reunion.  Joining  them 
for  dinner  one  evening  was  Phyllis  Baldwin 
Young  '45  and  her  husband,  Bill.  In  1941, 
Wilma  was  Phvllis's  housemother  at  Bates 
House.  David  and  Wilma  live  in  Newport, 
R.I. 

Earl  W.  Harrington,  Jr.,  men's  class  secre- 
tary, is  back  on  his  feet  with  an  artificial,  but 
very  workable,  new  left  hip.  He  is  looking 
forward  to  the  next  reunion.  Earl  lives  in 
Cranston,  R.I. 

H.  Eliot  Rice,  Cranston,  represented  the 
class  of  1941  in  presenting  the  1995  class  ban- 
ner to  the  incoming  freshman  class  at  convo- 
cation ceremonies  on  the  Green  in  Septem- 
ber. 


42 


Selma  Schlossberg  Krolls  Elderhostel 
bike  trip  through  Holland  was  a  wonderful 
way  to  learn  about  the  country,  she  writes. 
"But  I  don't  recommend  it  tor  couch  pota- 
toes ."  Selma  lives  in  East  Greenwich,  R.I. 

Dr.  Armando  U.  Ricciardi  lives  on  twelve 
acres  outside  ol  Reno,  New  I  le  has  se\  en 
children  and  sixteen  grandchildren.  In  1988 
lie  won  the  decathlon  championship,  and  in 
1991,  in  Moscow,  he  won  the  pentathlon  in 
the  Masters  International  Track  and  Field 
Championship.  Ric  and  his  wife,  Terry,  are 
planning  to  attend  the  50th  reunion. 


BROWN   All  MM   MONTHLY         4m 


44 


Margaret  Faulkner  Kingsbury  and  her 

husband,  who  live  in  Keene,  N.H.,  spent 
October  in  Honolulu,  Bali,  Sumatra,  and 
Java.  "A  very  interesting  trip.  Also,  ex- 
tremely hot." 


45 


Catherine  Towne  Anderson  writes  that 
her  husband,  Robert,  retired  as  principal  as- 
sessor for  Amherst,  Mass.,  where  they  live. 
"He's  gone  back  to  being  a  builder  and  has 
nearly  completed  our  vacation  home  on 
Wildwood  Lake  in  Tolland,  Mass. 

Phyllis  Baldwin  Young  (see  David  R. 
Ebbitt '41). 


46 


Richard  C.  Shaw  retired  from  "the  old 
Bell  system"  in  1979  after  thirty-three  years 
and  has  since  been  associated  with  Drew 
University,  Madison,  N.J.,  where  he  served 
a  term  as  director  of  the  Livingston  Adult 
School.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  a  tax 
consultant  to  the  elderly  and  an  AARP 
volunteer.  Richard  lives  in  Livingston,  N.J. 


47 


Nat  Brush  Lewis,  Caldwell,  N.J.,  received 
the  silver  medal  of  honor  at  the  49th  annual 
juried  show  of  the  New  Jersey  Water  Color 
Society  for  her  painting,  "House  at  Hart's 
Neck."  The  exhibition  was  held  at  Nabisco 
Brands  Gallery  in  East  Hanover,  N.J.,  last 
October  through  December.  Drusilla  Johnson 
Spraitzar,  Chatham,  N.J.,  sent  the  news. 


49 


Helvi  Olen  Moyer  and  her  husband, 
Robert  '50,  are  both  retired  from  The  Travel- 
ers Insurance  Company  and  enjoying  life  in 
Vernon,  Conn.  Their  son,  Jim,  his  wife,  and 
their  two  children  live  nearby,  and  their  oth- 
er son,  Paul,  lives  in  Leadville,  Colo.,  with 
his  wife  and  daughter. 

Joanne  Worley  Rondestvedt,  Hamden, 
Conn.,  writes  that  her  stepson,  a  commander 
in  the  U.S.  Navy,  returned  from  the  Persian 
Gulf  in  November  aboard  the  U.S.S.  Abraham 
Lincoln.  He  became  commander  of  Squadron 
22,  fliers  of  F/A-18s,  in  December. 


51 


Cathy  Patch  Gravel,  Enosburg  Falls,  Vt., 
is  head  of  the  technical  services  unit,  Vermont 
Department  of  Libraries,  in  Montpelier. 


52 


Watch  vour  mail  for  the  40th  Reunion 
registration  packet .  .  .  and  then  sign  up  for 
what  is  sure  to  be  a  memorable  weekend! 
Our  Reunion  Activities  Committee  has 
planned  a  full  weekend  of  activities  begin- 
ning on  Friday,  May  22,  through  Monday, 
May  25.  We  hope  to  see  you  there. 


Helen  Hoff  Peterson  '23 


A  special  recognition 


Helen  Hoff  Peterson  is  a  new  inductee 
into  the  Ohio  Women's  Hall  of  Fame. 
Ohio  Governor  George  Voinovich  presid- 
ed over  the  November  7  ceremonies,  in 
which  twenty  women  were  honored  be- 
fore an  audience  of  1,000  at  the  Hyatt  Re- 
gency Hotel  in  Columbus. 

Arriving  in  Columbus  in  1928,  Peter- 
son helped  organize  the  YWCA's  School 
of  Leisure  Time  Activities,  which  provid- 
ed free  classes  for  those  who  were  suffer- 
ing the  effects  of  the  Depression.  She  also 
secured  Work  Progress  Adminstration 
(WPA)  funds  to  establish  Household 
Training  Centers,  which  certified  pro- 
gram participants  and  enabled  them  to 
command  a  fairer  wage  and  so  countered 
the  exploitation  of  women  and  girls  em- 
ployed as  domestics.  She  continued  her 
advocacy  for  workplace  equality  by  lob- 
bying successfully  for  passage  of  a  state 
minimum  wage  law  for  women  and  mi- 
nors in  the  1930s.  Later,  Peterson  was  the 
only  woman  to  serve  on  the  state  wage 
board,  which  heard  cases  of  alleged  dis- 


In  March  Hilary  T.  Masters  published 
his  tenth  work  of  prose.  Success,  new  and 
selected  stories,  with  St.  Martin's  Press. 
He  is  director  of  the  creative  writing  pro- 
gram at  Carnegie  Mellon  University  in 
Pittsburgh. 


54 


Elizabeth  Tonkin  Moore  (see  Lansing 
Moore  '80). 


55 


George  B.  Ludlow,  Jr.,  and  his  wife, 
Carole,  were  Olympic  team  leaders  for  the 
1992  Olympic  Figure  Skating  Team  at  the 
Winter  Olympics  in  Albertville,  France,  in 
February.  Chip  and  Carole  live  in  Kent, 
Conn. 

Dolores  LaPorte  Nazareth  (see  Annette 
L.  Nazareth  78). 


56 


Phyllis  Rannacher  Dodson  is  sorry  to 
have  missed  the  reunion.  She  is  still  writing, 
traveling,  and  enjoying  Santa  Barbara,  Calif., 
where  she  has  lived  for  twenty-five  years. 
Dazzle  Devoe  Gidley  and  Carol  Jordan 


crimination  against  minorities  working  in 
the  defense  industry. 

She  served  on  the  YWCA  National 
Board  from  1946  to  1959,  and  in  1985  was 
named  one  of  only  ten  cabinet  members 
in  the  Columbus  YWCA's  Academy  of 
Women  of  Achievement.  A  member  of 
Columbus's  First  Congregational  Church 
for  more  than  fifty  years,  she  chaired  the 
Social  Action  Committee  and  helped  es- 
tablish the  city's  first  interracial  nursery 
school.  She  is  a  past  president  of  Church 
Women  United. 

Her  citation  lauded  her  for  being  "a 
lifelong  advocate  for  social  justice,  [be- 
ginning] her  distinguished  career  of  vol- 
unteer service  during  the  Great  Depres- 
sion. Arriving  in  Columbus  as  a 
newlywed  in  1928,  she  immediately  be- 
came involved  with  the  local  YWCA. 
During  the  decades  that  followed,  she 
continued  to  advocate  for  a  discrimina- 
tion-free workplace  and  fair  wages  for 
women  and  minorities." 


Hamilton  visited  in  June,  and  in  July,  Phyllis 
shared  a  pre-concert  picnic  with  Gretchen 
Gross  Wheelwright  More  recently,  Larry 
Klein  and  his  wife,  Judy,  spent  the  night.  In 
November,  Phyllis  explored  the  colonial 
towns  north  of  Mexico  City  and  this  month 
she  plans  to  hike  the  Milford  Track  on  New 
Zealand's  South  Island.  Last  year  she  spent 
August  in  Zimbabwe  and  Botswana  and 
spent  November  in  the  former  Soviet  Union, 
where  her  youngest  son,  Bill,  was  a  univer- 
sity student  in  Kiev. 


57 


A  full  35th  Reunion  registration  packet 
will  arrive  sometime  this  month  Our  Reunion 
Activities  Committee  has  been  hard  at  work 
organizing  a  memorable  35th  Reunion  week- 
end, May  22-25,  and  we  look  forward  to  hav- 
ing a  great  turnout.  Don't  forget  to  send  in 
your  questionnaire  for  our  35th  Reunion  book, 
which  will  be  distributed  at  the  reunion  (send 
to:  Reunion  Headquarters,  Box  1859,  Brown 
University,  Providence,  RI  02912).  It's  not  too 
late! 

Brig.  Gen.  Robert  A.  Norman,  USAF 
(Ret.),  is  still  in  Brussels,  working  for  E-Sys- 
tems  as  the  director  of  NATO  and  regional 
programs.  He  covers  NATO,  Scandinavia, 


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and  Iberia,  and  has  just  added  Hungary. 

As  part  of  its  holiday  program,  the  Cathe- 
dral of  Saint  John  the  Divine,  New  York  Citv, 
exhibited  photographs  by  William  Rivelli 
The  show,  "Cathedral  Portfolio,"  was  on  view 
in  December  and  January.  Bill  lives  in  New 
York  City. 


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Peter  ,md  Jane  Loveless  Howard  write 
that  their  son,  David  '89,  received  his  Sc.M. 
in  materials  science  and  engineering  from 
Brown  in  May.  On  hand  to  congratulate  him 
was  his  grandfather,  Herbert  A.  Howard  '28, 
of  Jamaica,  Vt.  David  is  continuing  his  stud- 
ies in  a  Ph.D.  program  at  Brown.  Peter  and 
Jane  live  in  Arlington,  Mass. 

With  the  acquisition  of  Connecticut  Sav- 
ings Bank  bv  Centerbank,  Paul  H.  Johnson 
left  his  position  as  president  and  CEO  to  be- 
come the  special  assistant  to  the  dean  and  di- 
rector of  The  Campaign  for  Yale  Law  School. 
1  le  lives  in  C  iuilford.  Conn. 

John  Loran  (see  Philip  J.  Squattrito  '82). 

C.  William  Stamm,  Stonington,  Conn., 
left  the  banking  business  three-and-a-half 
years  ago  and  then  went  back  to  school  to 
study  psychology.  "I  think  it  may  be  time  to 
stop  driving  myself  and  accept  semi-retire- 
ment. Sleeping  late  is  great." 


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W.H.  D 


i.  Darnley  retired  after  thirty  years  of 
elementary  school  administration  and  is  now 
curator  of  the  Worcester  Historical  Museum 
in  Massachusetts.  He  lives  in  Douglas,  Mass. 

Dr  Clark  A.  Sammartino  has  been  ap- 
pointed clinical  professor  of  oral  and  maxillo- 
facial surgery  at  Tufts  University  New  Eng- 
land Medical  Center  in  Boston.  He  is  chief  of 
oral  and  maxillofacial  surgery  at  Rhode  Is- 
land Hospital,  Roger  Williams  Hospital,  and 
St.  Joseph's  Hospital,  all  in  Providence.  He 
lives  in  North  Kingstown,  R.I. 


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Stephanie  Kruger  Sabar  is  a  social  work- 
er with  Jewish  Family  Service,  senior  ser- 
vices, in  Los  Angeles.  She  is  also  a  volunteer 
counselor  and  leads  two  support  groups  for 
people  with  AIDS.  Ariel  is  a  junior,  and  Ilah 
is  a  high  school  senior.  Stephanie's  husband, 
Yona,  is  a  professor  of  Near  Eastern  lan- 
guages at  UCLA.  They  live  in  Los  Angeles. 


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The  October  weekend  commemorating 
"100  Years  of  Women"  at  Brown  brought 
to  campus  Emily  Arnold.  Karin  Borei  Begg, 
Wendy  Friedman  Brest,  Myma  Danenherg 
Felder,  Cynthia  Jenner,  Sara-Jane  Kom- 
blith,  Ellen  Shaffer  Meyer.  Joyce  Reed, 
Chelsey  Carrier  Remington,  and  Jane  Ar- 
caro  Scola 

Richard  H.  Pohle,  Kula,  Hawaii,  writes 
that  "on  the  side,  we  have  become  protea 
farmers.  We  sell  commercially,  bv  mail  order, 
$30  to  $50  per  box." 


David  Remington  was  awarded  the  An- 
thony Ittleson  Award  from  Brown  for  his 
outstanding  tundraising  cltorts.  which  cul- 
minated in  the  class's  record-setting  30th 
reunion  gilt  of  $1,019.  400  Da\  id's  wife, 
Chelsey  Carrier  Remington,  was  awarded 
a  1991  Alumni  Service  Award.  Thev  live  in 
Still  River,  Mass 

Dr.  Steve  Sewall's  daughter,  Kimberly  '90, 
an  aspiring  actress,  is  working  as  a  business 
representative  for  the  Screen  Actors'  Guild  in 
1  lollvwood.  Son  Derek  spent  the  fall  semes- 
ter at  Catholic  University  in  Valparaiso,  Chile, 
and  transferred  to  Brown  as  a  junior  in  Jan- 
u. in    Stove  lives  in  Lincoln,  Mass. 

Roger  Simon.  Snyder,  NY.,  was  awarded 
a  1991  Alumni  Service  Award. 

Joseph  Steinfeld  is  a  trial  lawyer  at  Hill 
&  Barlow  in  Boston.  In  December  he  chaired 
a  symposium,  "The  First  Amendment  at  200," 
in  Boston.  Joe's  wife,  pianist  Virginia  Eskin, 
is  a  lecturer  at  Northeastern  University  and 
frequent  co-host  of  the  National  Public  Radio 
program,  "A  Note  to  You."  Her  most  recent 
compact  disc  is  "Music  from  Thereisienstadt," 
featuring  music  written  during  the  Holo- 
caust. They  live  in  Boston. 

Dr  Art  Tuch,  Wallingford,  Pa.,  is  a  gas- 
troenterologist  who  has  been  in  private  prac- 
tice for  nineteen  years  and  at  Crozier-Chester 
Medical  Center,  Riddle  Memorial  Hospital, 
and  Sacred  Heart  Medical  Center,  Chester,  Pa. 
He  had  been  area  chair  for  NASP  in  Philadel- 
phia for  several  years  and  is  now  handling  in- 
terviews in  the  western  suburbs.  His  daugh- 
ter, Linda,  is  a  junior,  and  Debbie,  a  high 
school  senior,  is  applying  to  art  schools.  Kay, 
Art's  wife,  handles  the  business  side  of  his 
medical  practice. 


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We  hope  vou  are  planning  to  return  to 
Brown  for  your  30th  reunion.  Once  you 
receive  your  Reunion  '92  registration  packet, 
please  fill  it  out  and  return  it  as  soon  as 
possible  so  that  the  reunion  activities  com- 
mittee can  begin  finalizing  plans.  See  you 
soon. 

Susan  Chipman  Kline  has  been  named 
director  of  development  and  public  infor- 
mation for  MCOSS  Nursing  Services  and 
Foundation,  based  in  Red  Bank  and  North 
Brunswick,  N.J.  She  joined  MCOSS  in  1989 
after  holding  public  information  positions 
in  public  health  and  county  government. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Society 
of  Fund  Raising  Executives,  the  Public 
Relations  Society  of  America,  and  the 
American  Medical  Writers  Association. 
Susan  and  her  husband,  Robert  '61,  live  in 
Little  Silver,  N.J. 


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Gary  E.  Seningen,  1  lolbrook,  N.Y.,  is 
moving  to  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  in  the  spring 
when  his  company  relocates  to  Bridgewater, 
N.J.  His  oldest  son,  Scott,  is  applying  to 
Brown. 


William  G.  Hooks.  Upper  Saddle  River, 
N.J.,  writes  that  alter  seventeen  years  with 
I  lome  Box  Office  in  the  U.S.,  he  traveled 
to  Singapore  in  November  to  manage  the 
launching  of  HBO  in  Southeast  Asia.  The 


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BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  51 


Richard  Hilkert  '52 


The  accidental 
bibliophile 

After  graduating  from  Brown,  Rich- 
ard Hilkert  pursued  his  study  of  Eng- 
lish at  the  University  of  Arizona  and 
at  Stanford,  where  he  was  awarded 
his  master's  and  doctor's  degrees,  re- 
spectively. Wary  of  an  academic  ca- 
reer, he  decided  instead  to  become  a 
banker.  "I  needed  the  money  and  se- 
curity," he  said  in  an  interview  with 
the  San  Francisco  Examiner  recently. 

Some  years  later  he  helped  open  a 
bookstore  and  "in  a  matter  of  a  few 
days,  it  was  obvious  to  everyone  I  was 
doing  something  I  loved."  He  opened 
his  own  bookshop  in  San  Francisco's 
Jackson  Square  in  1981.  Then,  as  inte- 
rior decorators  moved  to  the  Galleria 
district,  so  did  Hilkert. 

The  fact  that  Hilkert  moved  with 
the  decorators  is  no  surprise.  While 
his  bookstore  has  everything  under 
the  sun,  it  also  has  a  selection  of  inte- 
rior design  manuals  that  has  been 
called  the  largest  in  the  West,  if  not 
the  country.  The  National  Council  for 
Interior  Design  Qualifications  recom- 
mends the  shop,  and  it  is  the  only 
source  listed  in  the  council's  bibliogra- 
phy, according  to  the  article. 

Hilkert,  who  runs  the  store  with 
his  "right  hand,"  Bradley  Rose,  says 
that  the  "environment  is  an  extension 
of  my  home.  We  greet  everyone  who 
comes  in  and  make  them  feel  at  ease." 

When  asked  about  business,  the 
bow-tied  owner  joked,  "I've  been  in 
the  black  ever  since  I  opened.  Some- 
times it's  milk  chocolate,  but  it's  al- 
ways dark." 


assignment  could  last  three  months  or  five 
years,  he  says.  He  can  be  reached  at  (212) 
512-1553  or  (212)  512-5517  (FAX). 


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Kathryn  Costa  Houlihan  is  a  financial-aid 
counselor  at  Fairfield  University  in  Connecti- 
cut. Her  daughter,  Kate,  is  a  freshman  at 
Newhouse  School  of  Communication,  Syra- 
cuse University.  Kathryn  lives  in  Watertown, 
Conn. 

Kristie  Miller,  McLean,  Va.,  writes  that  her 


biography  of  her  grandmother,  Ruth  Hanna 
McCormick  A  Life  in  Politics  1880-1944,  will 
be  published  by  The  University  of  New  Mex- 
ico Press  this  month. 

Alex  Newton  and  Betsy  Wagenhauser 
were  married  in  Dallas  in  August.  Alex  is  a 
regional  lawyer  for  the  Agency  for  Internation- 
al Development,  and  Betsy  oversees  the  op- 
erations of  the  South  American  Explorers 
Club  in  Lima,  Peru,  and  Quito,  Ecuador.  They 
are  on  a  new  assignment  to  Bangladesh,  with 
Betsy  doing  commutes  to  South  America. 


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Our  25th  Reunion  is  just  two  months  away! 
Response  to  our  initial  mailing  has  been 
overwhelming.  Thank  you  to  all  who  sent  in 
yearbook  surveys,  reunion  interest  forms, 
and  class  dues.  It  looks  like  our  class  might 
break  the  attendance  record  for  25th  Re- 
unions at  Brown.  Be  sure  to  sign  up  when 
you  receive  the  Reunion  registration  package 
this  month.  The  25th  comes  but  once. 

Dr.  Robert  C.  Elliot  lives  in  Los  Angeles 
with  his  wife,  Barbara,  and  two  children, 
Matthew,  11,  and  Mallorv,  5.  Bob  is  pediatric 
department  head  for  CIGNA  Health  Plans 
in  North  Hollywood,  and  "full  time  remod- 
eler  at  home." 

Leslie  Dallas  Nordby  is  project  manager 
for  branch  construction  with  the  Los  Angeles 
Public  Library.  Her  daughter,  Melissa  Wise- 
man, graduated  from  UCLA  in  1991  and  is 
applying  to  graduate  schools  to  study  psychol- 
ogy. Leslie  lives  in  Los  Angeles. 


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Caryl  Carpenter,  Lansdowne,  Pa.,  has 
been  selected  a  Robert  Wood  Johnson  Facul- 
ty Fellow  in  health-care  finance.  She  spent 
the  fall  of  1991  studying  at  the  Johns  Hopkins 
School  of  Public  Health  and  is  completing  an 
eight-month  field  placement  at  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson University  Hospital  in  Philadelphia. 

Paul  A.  Linton,  Denver,  was  promoted  to 
captain  in  the  U.S.  Naval  Reserve  and  later 
executive  officer,  NR,  Commander  Naval 
Forces  Korea,  Det.  118,  Denver.  He  continues 
in  his  solo  law  practice  (business  planning) 
and  coaches  soccer. 

Susan  Ahrens  Weihl  teaches  history  at 
Daniel  Hand  High  School  in  Madison, 
Conn.  She  recently  received  an  award  for 
excellence  in  high  school  teaching  from  the 
University  of  Connecticut  Alumni  Associa- 
tion. In  1988  she  was  listed  by  Runner's 
World  magazine  as  one  of  the  top  twenty- 
five  female  master's  runners  in  the  U.S. 
Susan  lives  in  Madison. 


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Peter  E.  Davies  is  director  of  admissions 
and  marketing  at  the  Dwight  Englewood 
School  in  Englewood,  N.J.  He  lives  with  his 
wife,  Melissa,  and  their  four  children  in 
Tenafly,  N.J.,  where  Peter  continues  to  work 
on  his  house  and  keeps  busv  with  the  kids. 

Joseph  L.  Higgins  and  his  wife,  Eileen, 
announce  the  birth  of  Patrick  Joseph  Higgins 


on  Aug.  8.  "Life  has  been  going  very  well  for 
me  for  the  past  three  years,  especially  since  I 
met  Eileen,"  he  writes.  "Patrick's  birth  has 
made  it  more  wonderful.  In  a  very  real  sense, 
life  for  me  began  at  forty."  The  family  lives 
in  Plainfield,  N.J. 

Paul  H.D.  Payton,  Rocky  Hill,  Conn.,  does 
freelance  voiceover  work  and  reports  that 
business  is  ahead  of  expectations  despite  the 
recession.  "I  have  worked  in  six  states  -  my 
car  has  the  mileage  to  prove  it  -  and  have 
been  broadcast  nationwide."  He  writes  that 
his  car  was  burglarized  twice  in  New  York 
City,  and  he  has  lost  his  address  book. 
Friends  who  want  to  get  in  touch  are  urged 
to  contact  him  at  Box  1101,  Cromwell,  Conn. 
06416.  (203)  721-1049. 

Richard  E.  Thayer  ('75  Ph.D.)  is  coor- 
dinator of  geophysical  training  at  Shell  Oil 
Company  in  Houston.  He  is  married  to 
Martha  Farr  Reed  (Skidmore  '76).  Her  sister, 
Kit  Reed  Hall  '83,  was  matron  of  honor. 
"With  daughter  Julie  at  UC-Santa  Cruz,  and 
son  Tom  starting  to  look  at  colleges,  I'm  find- 
ing myself  reminiscing  about  college  days. 
Doesn't  seem  like  so  long  ago." 


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Marilynn  Mair  and  Mark  Davis  '69,  the 
Mair-Davis  Duo,  have  released  a  new  record- 
ing, Vienna  Nocturne,  on  the  North  Star  label. 
The  album  contains  pieces  by  Mozart, 
Beethoven,  Brahms,  Sor,  and  Rung,  scored 
for  mandolin  and  guitar.  In  May,  they  will  be 
traveling  to  Kobe,  Japan,  to  perform  in  the 
International  Mandolin  Festival  '92.  They 
live  in  Providence. 

David  A.  Rammelkamp  is  a  partner  in  the 
Albuquerque,  N.M.,  law  firm  of  Poole,  Kelly 
and  Ramo,  where  he  specializes  in  labor  and 
employment  law. 


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Carol  Locke  Campbell  is  a  licensed  mar- 
riage, family,  and  child  counselor  in  private 
practice  in  Santa  Clara,  Calif.  She  volunteers 
for  the  Girl  Scouts  and  Amigos  de  las  Ameri- 
cas, an  organization  that  trains  young  people 
to  serve  as  health-care  workers  in  remote  vil- 
lages in  Latin  America.  Carol  lives  in  San  Jose, 
Calif.,  and  has  three  sons:  Kent,  17,  Dean,  14, 
and  Bryce,  12. 

Dr.  Richard  J.  Forde,  San  Diego,  gave  a 
piano  recital  on  Nov.  17  in  commemoration 
of  the  Mozart  anniversary  year.  The  program 
also  included  works  of  Chopin.  "Playing  the 
piano  continues  to  be  one  of  mv  primary  stress 
alleviators.  I  remember  fondly  my  lessons 
with  Prof.  Waldbauer  back  in  the  1970s." 

Donald  F.  Greene  and  his  wife,  Claudette, 
announce  the  birth  of  Charlie  on  Aug.  23.  All 
are  doing  great,  Don  writes.  They  live  in 
Greenwich,  Conn. 

Lee  Makowski  has  been  promoted  to  pro- 
fessor of  physics  at  Boston  University.  Pre- 
viously, he  was  a  senior  research  associate  at 
Brandeis  University  and  an  assistant  professoi 
at  Columbia.  He  also  works  as  a  guest  assis- 
tant at  Brookhaven  National  Laboratories  in 
Upton,  N.Y.  A  member  of  the  American 


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Crystallography  Association,  the  National 
Science  Foundation's  Biophysics  Program 
advisory  panel,  and  the  Biophysical  Society, 
of  which  he  has  been  an  executive  board 
member  since  1990,  he  has  been  the  associate 
editor  of  the  Biophysical  Journal  since  1987. 

Andrew  W.  Robertson  II,  I  .a  Jolla,  Calif., 
has  started  a  sports  consulting  business,  R  & 
R  Ventures,  after  fifteen  years  with  a  Los  An- 
geles law  firm 

Dr.  Michael  L.  Shafer,  Larkspur,  Calif.,  has 
been  elected  president  of  the  San  Francisco 
Emergency  Physicians  Association.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  San 
Francisco  Medical  Society,  the  first  emergen- 
cy physician  to  be  elected. 


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Matt  Walton  and  his  wife,  December,  have 
moved  to  Santa  Monica,  Calif.,  where  Matt 
is  pursuing  a  multi-hyphenated  career  in  the 
entertainment  industry. 


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Jonathan  E.  Barnes,  Reading,  Mass.,  re- 
centlv  became  the  director  of  employee  re- 
lations and  labor  counsel  for  the  Massachu- 
setts Turnpike  Authority. 

Patrick  J.  Cafferty,  Jr.,  is  a  partner  in  the 
San  Francisco  office  of  Munger,  Tolle  &  Olson, 
a  Los  Angeles-based  law  firm.  He  specializes 
in  environmental  law  and  lives  with  his  wife, 
Eileen,  in  Moraga,  Calif. 

After  eleven  years  at  the  National  Insti- 
tutes of  Health,  Dr.  Margaret  Maier  Parker 
and  Dr.  Robert  I.  Parker  have  moved  to 
Stonv  Brook,  N.Y.,  where  Bob  is  head  of  the 
division  of  pediatric  hematologv/ oncology, 
and  Margaret  is  working  in  the  pediatric 
intensive-care  unit.  They  report  that  their 
boys  -  Rob,  10,  Chris,  8,' Tim,  6,  and  Matt,  3  - 
have  adjusted  well  and  are  enjoying  their  new 
school  and  sports  activities. 

Dr.  Walter  W.  Williams,  Stone  Mountain, 
Ga.,  says,  "Come  South!  Atlanta  is  a  wonder- 
ful town." 


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Mark  A.  de  Regt  and  Dr  Roberta  Haynes 
de  Regt  '76  announce  the  birth  of  Elizabeth 
Laura  on  Jan.  25,  1990.  She  joins  David  and 
Anna.  Mark  recently  became  of  counsel  to 
the  Wilton,  Conn.,  law  firm  of  Gregory  and 
Adams.  He  practices  in  the  fields  of  corpo- 
rate and  entertainment  law,  including  trade- 
marks and  copyrights,  and  also  works  on 
increasing  the  firm's  attention  to  small  and 
medium-size  businesses.  Mark  and  Roberta 
live  in  Westport,  Conn. 

Joseph  T.  Grause,  Jr.,  Needham,  Mass., 
is  senior  vice  president  with  Fidelity  Man- 
agement Trust  Company.  He  has  been  with 
Fidelity  for  over  fifteen  vears. 

Hilary  Lambert  Renwick  is  editor  of  Fo- 
cus magazine  of  the  American  Geographical 
Society.  She  lives  with  her  husband,  Bill,  and 
two  children,  Peggy,  9,  and  Oliver,  5,  in  Ox- 
ford, Ohio.  She  writes  that  her  obsessive  hob- 
by is  spelunking. 


Jerome  and  Mary  Aguiar  Vascellaro  are 
living  at  1  Wrenfield  Ln.,  Darien,  Conn, 

06820,  after  five  years  in  London.  Matthew, 
6,  and  lessica,  S,  are  delighted  to  be  back  and 
are  keening  everyone  very  busy,  Mary 
writes. 

Alan  Wovsaniker  and  his  wife,  Susan,  an- 
nounce the  birth  of  ('van  on  June  19.  Alan  is 
an  attorney  with  Lowenstein  Sandler  Kohl 
Fisher  &  Bovlan  in  Roseland,  N.|.  The  familv 
lives  in  West  Orange,  N.J. 


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Wendy  J.  Busch  has  returned  from  two 
years  in  the  Netherlands  and  is  a  staff  attor- 
ney with  the  Colorado  Court  of  Appeals  in 
Denver 

Peter  G.  Gosselin,  Chew  Chase,  Md.,  is 
a  reporter  with  the  Washington  bureau  of  the 
Boston  Globe.  He  spent  the  early  part  of  last 
year  in  Saudi  Arabia  and  Kuwait  covering  the 
Gulf  War.  Since  then,  "it's  been  the  Soviet 
coup,  Thomas  hearings,  and  our  crumbling 
economy." 

Peggy  McKearney  Hamel  is  senior  editor 
in  charge  of  publications  at  King  Arthur 
Flour  in  Norwich,  Vt.,  the  country's  oldest 
flour  company.  "The  job  combines  my  two 
favorite  pastimes:  writing  and  cooking/eat- 
ing." Peggy  lives  in  Hanover,  N.H. 

Dr  Barry  Heller  and  his  wife,  Jin,  live  in 
Redondo  Beach,  Calif.  He  is  an  emergency 
physician,  and  she  is  an  attorney  for  MGM- 
Pathe.  Their  son,  Eli,  is  18  months  old.  Corre- 
spondence is  encouraged  at  933  Calle  Mira- 
mar,  Redondo  Beach  90277. 

Michele  S.  Kay,  New  York  City,  is  still 
working  in  "the  crazy  world"  of  advertising. 
She  recently  took  a  three-week  trip  to  Kenya 
and  the  Seychelles,  which  was  "absolutely 
incredible."  She  would  love  to  hear  from 
nearby  alumni. 


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The  Rev.  Juanita  Elizabeth  Carroll  has 

been  promoted  to  major  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force 
Chaplain  Corps  Reserves.  Her  article,  "Min- 
istry to  Health  Professionals  in  Armed  Con- 
flict Situations,"  has  been  selected  by  the 
USAF  Chaplain  School  as  a  training  instru- 
ment. Juanita  is  a  student  in  the  graduate 
program  at  Chicago  Medical  School.  She 
lives  in  Urbana,  III. 

Catherine  Brady  Fernandez  has  moved 
back  to  the  Hartford,  Conn.,  area,  where  she 
has  started  an  insurance  brokerage.  Her  sec- 
ond child,  Brook  Ellen,  was  born  on  April  7. 
Tyler  is  3. 

Caricia  J.  Fisher  continues  to  work  at 
the  National  Alliance  of  Business.  She  bought 
a  house  in  Silver  Spring,  Md.,  last  year,  just 
two  blocks  from  the  school  where  her  daugh- 
ter, Natalia,  is  in  kindergarten.  Caricia  en- 
joyed seeing  friends  at  the  reunion. 

Eric  S.  Goldman  and  his  wife,  Susan,  an- 
nounce the  birth  of  Rhvan  Rose,  on  May  13. 
"So  if  anyone  wants  to  know  why  I  wasn't  at 
the  reunion,  it's  because  1  didn't  want  to 
bring  a  two-week-old  child."  The  familv  lives 
in  Metuchen,  N.J. 


Richard  W.  Halpern  is  direct  response 
manager  at  Progress  Software  Corporation  in 
Bedford,  Mass.,  a  4GL/RDBMS  software 
provider  growing  at  50  percent  a  year.  He 
lives  in  Franklin,  Mass.,  with  Arlyn,  a  Lie. 
S.W.  with  a  part-time  private  practice,  Ben,  7, 
and  stepson  Ian,  9.  Richard  writes  that  he  has 
started  a  stepfamily  support  group  in  the 
area 

Alexis  Chark  Hill  and  her  husband, 
I  >avid  Andrew  I  lill,  announce  the  birth  of 
Russell  Charles  Hill  on  Oct.  17.  They  live  in 
New  York  City. 


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Start  checking  your  mailbox  for  the  regis- 
tration mailing  for  Reunion  '92.  Fill  it  out  and 
return  it  as  soon  as  possible  so  that  we  can  fi- 
nalize all  the  plans.  We  want  to  see  you  back 
at  Brown. 

Don't  forget  to  come  to  the  mini-reunions 
planned  in  Boston  and  New  York  City  in 
April.  If  you  are  planning  on  visiting  either 
area  at  that  time  and  would  like  to  come  to 
the  mini-reunion,  please  contact  the  reunion 
office  at  (401)  863-1947  for  more  information. 

Dr  Arthur  R.  Bartolozzi  m,  Philadelphia, 
has  been  appointed  assistant  professor  of  or- 
thopaedic surgery  at  Thomas  Jefferson  Uni- 
versity. He  is  also  team  orthopaedic  surgeon 
for  the  Philadephia  Fivers  professional  hock- 
ey team. 

Lynn  Dawley  Forsell  and  her  husband, 
Bill,  announce  the  birth  of  Eric  William  on 
April  3.  They  live  in  Brooklyn  Heights,  N.Y. 
Lvnn  and  Bill  are  vice  presidents  at  Bankers 
Trust  and  Goldman  Sachs,  respectively. 

Dr.  Mark  J.  Hauser  lues  in  Newton,  Mass., 
with  his  wife,  Andrea,  and  son,  Jeffrey,  1 . 
Mark  specializes  in  forensic  psychiatry  and 
consults  with  agencies  that  care  for  clients 
who  are  mentally  retarded  or  brain  injured. 
He  is  co-chair  of  the  15th  reunion  committee. 


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David  W.  Babson  lives  in  Normal,  111., 
and  is  "enjoying  married  life."  An  archaeolo- 
gist, he  is  working  at  the  site  of  Wessyngton 
Plantation,  near  Nashville,  Term. 


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Alumni  Calendar 


Dates  of  Interest 

Academic  Year  1991-1992 


March 


New  York  City 

March  18.  Brown  Club-sponsored  evening 
with  the  Lithuanian  Ambassador  to  the  Unit- 
ed States.  Delegates'  Lounge,  United  Nations 
Headquarters.  Call  Stephanie  Sanchez  '89, 
(212)  661-1210. 

San  Francisco 

March  21.  Brown  Club  of  Northern  Cali- 
fornia and  Young  Alumni  co-sponsored  Ski 
Weekend  at  Squaw  Valley.  Call  Chantal 
Garcia '86,  (415)824-1159. 

London 

March  25.  Brown  Club  of  Great  Britain  hosts 
the  Brown  Jazz  Band  and  Dance  Extension 
for  a  Duke  Ellington  Cabaret.  Tuke  Hall  of 
Regent's  College,  Regent's  Park.  Call  Nancy 
Turck  '68, 71-629-1207. 

Providence 

March  28-29.  Brown  Club  of  Rhode  Island- 
sponsored  event  in  conjunction  with  the 
Fleet  Lacrosse  Invitational.  Participating  men's 
varsity  teams  include  Brown,  Duke,  Loyola, 
and  Syracuse.  For  information  on  the  club 
event  call  Davies  Bisset,  (401)  863-3309;  to 
order  tickets  call  Tom  Bold  (401)  863-2773. 

Washington,  DC 

March  29.  Continuing  College  Seminar, 
"Rewriting  the  Rules:  The  New  American 
Family,"  with  Professor  of  Sociology  Frances 
Goldscheider,  Professor  of  Medicine  Dr. 
Candace  McNultv,  others.  Call  Colman 
Levin  '55,  (202)  223-0716. 


April 


Attention  members  of  classes  ending  in  2 
and  7:  Register  now  for  your  '92  class  re- 
union1. A  complete  registration  packet 
should  appear  in  your  mailbox  very  soon  if 
it  lias  not  already  arrived  -  please  send  it 
back  to  us  promptly  to  reserve  your  space 
for  a  weekend  to  remember.  From  the 
Brown  Bear  Buffet  to  Campus  Dance,  from 
the  Hour  With  the  President  to  Sunday 
evening's  Commencement  Concert  with 
Eugenia  Zukerman,  Reunion  '92  will  her- 
ald the  old  and  new  traditions  that  make 
Brown  Brown.  We  look  forward  to  seeing 
you  in  May! 


Palm  Beach,  Fla. 

April  5.  Brown  Club  of  Palm  Beach-sponsored 
faculty  brunch  with  Professor  of  Compara- 
tive Literature  Meera  Viswanathan.  Call  Tom 
Hunt  '80,  (407)  650-0624  or  Arnie  Berman  '72, 
(407)  835-8500. 

New  York  City 

April  7.  Brown  Club-sponsored  "Breakfast 
with  Champions,"  featuring  Betsy  West  '73, 
senior  broadcast  producer  of  "PrimeTime 
Live."  Limited  space.  Call  Stephanie  Sanchez 
'89,(212)661-1210. 

San  Francisco 

April  7.  Young  Alumni-sponsored  "Cocktails 
with  the  '80s."  Paragon  Cafe.  Call  Darryl 
Shrock '86,  (415)775-5791. 

Worcester,  Mass. 

April  7.  Brown  Club  of  Worcester-sponsor- 
ed scholarship  fundraiser,  "A  Duke  Ellington 
Cabaret,"  with  the  Brown  Jazz  Band  and 
Dance  Extension.  8-9:30  p.m.,  Bancroft  School. 
Call  Joan  Leo  '68,  (508)  798-8621,  ext.  358. 

Worldwide 

April  7-16.  Receptions  for  accepted  members 
of  Brown's  Class  of  1996  in  their  home  cities. 
At  press  time  receptions  were  being  planned 
in  Boston,  New  York,  Miami,  London,  Chica- 
go, San  Francisco,  and  Los  Angeles,  with 
more  to  come.  To  inquire  about  or  to  orga- 
nize a  reception  in  your  city,  call  the  NASP 
office,  (401)  863-3306. 

Bethesda,  Md. 

April  9.  Brown  Club  of  Washington  D.C. 
Half-Centurv  Group  sponsored  Annual 
Luncheon.  This  is  the  10th  annual  meeting 
of  Brown  and  Pembroke  alumni  in  the 
Washington  area  who  attended  Brown  in 
the  first  50  years  of  this  century  and,  as 
such,  promises  to  be  a  very  special 
occasion.  Kenwood  Country  Club.  Call 
Mary  Wurzel  '39,  (703)  751-4043. 

Providence 

April  11.  Association  of  Class  Officers-spon- 
sored Annual  Meeting.  9:30  a.m.  orientation 
for  new  class  officers;  meeting  convenes  for 
all  others  at  10  a.m.,  Crystal  Room,  Alumnae 
Hall.  Call  Melanie  Coon,  (401)  863-3380. 

Nashville 

April  12.  Continuing  College  Seminar,  " 
Encountering  the  New  World,  1493-1800," 


Spring  recess,  March  21-29 
Admission  decision  letters  mailed  to 
Class  of  1996,  April  1 
Spring  semester  classes  end,  May  5 
Final  exam  period,  May  6-15 
Campus  Dance,  May  22 
Reunion-Commencement  Weekend, 
May  22-25 


with  John  Carter  Brown  Library  Curator 
Susan  Danforth.  Tennessee  State  Museum. 
Call  Andy  Shaindlin,  (401)  863-3309. 

Providence 

April  14-15.  Bruin  Club  and  NASP  co-spon- 
sored event,  "A  Day  on  College  Hill:  A 
Brown  Prospective,"  for  accepted  members 
of  the  Class  of  1996.  Call  the  NASP  office, 
(401)863-3306. 


May 


Providence 

Mav  6.  Pembroke  Club  of  Providence-spon- 
sored Annual  Dinner  Meeting.  Includes  lec- 
ture by  Professor  of  Political  Science  Elmer 
Cornwell.  6:30  p.m.,  Faculty  Club.  Call 
Shirley  Wolpert  '46,  (401)  863-3307. 

Westchester 

Mav  6.  Brown  Club-sponsored  "Meetings  of 
the  Mind"  studv  group  session  with  Profes- 
sor of  American  Civilization  Richard  Meckel, 
"Unfinished  Nation:  Immigration  and  the 
American  Experience."  Call  Jay  Fidler  '43, 
(212)  869-4330. 

Fairfield  County,  Conn. 
Mav  7.  Brown  Club-sponsored  'Meetings  of 
the  Mind'  studv  group  session  with  Profes- 
sor of  English  Robert  Scholes,  "Semiotics  and 
the  Transparency  of  Culture."  Call  Libby  Al- 
banese  '62,  (203)  226-1178. 

May  14.  Continuing  College  Seminar  &  An- 
nual Regional  Scholarship  Dinner,  "Ques- 
tions of  Conquest:  The  Case  of  Columbus," 
with  Professor  of  Historv  Tom  Skidmore  and 
John  Carter  Brown  Librarv  Curator  Susan 
Danforth.  Courtland  Gardens,  Fairfield.  Call 
Chuck  Connell  '75,  (212)  223-5175. 

This  calendar  is  a  sampling  of  activities  of  inter- 
est to  alumni  reported  to  the  Brown  Alumni 
Monthly  at  press  time.  For  the  most  up-to-date 
listing  or  more  details,  contact  the  Alumni  Rela- 
tions Office.  (401)863-3307. 


54  /   MARCH   1992 


Amy  Briskin  and  Dr.  Robert  Wallace 

(Princeton)  were  married  Nov.  ID  at  the  New 
York  Academy  of  Art.  A  number  of  Brown 
alumni  attended.  The  couple  lives  in  Man- 
hattan. 

Randy  Seiler  Margulis  ,md  I  )r  Stephen 
Margulis  ('81  M.D.)  announce  the  birth  of 
Andrew  Eric  on  July  1.  They  live  in  Bergen 
County,  N.J.,  where  Stephen  has  joined  a 
gastroenterology  group.  Randy  is  on  mater- 
nity leave  from  CBS. 

Peter  T.  Michaelis  and  Victoria  Falk 
Michaelis  '82  are  living  in  Bedford,  N.Y.  Pe- 
ter is  an  independent  television  producer, 
and  Victoria  is  planning  to  attend  architec- 
ture school. 

Lisa  A.  Miller  and  Ronald  A.  Sarachan  77 
announce  the  birth  of  Anne  Elizabeth  on 
April  26,  1990.  She  joins  Tom,  10,  and  Meg,  6. 
Ron  is  chief  of  the  major  crimes  section  in  the 
Philadelphia  U.S.  Attorney's  office.  He  has 
established  the  Philadelphia  Environmental 
Task  Force,  made  up  of  law  enforcement  offi- 
cers from  federal,  state,  local,  and  environ- 
mental agencies,  to  prosecute  environmental 
criminals.  Lisa  writes  occasionally  on  music 
and  art  for  the  Times-Chronicle  in  Jenkintown. 
They  live  in  Glenside,  Pa. 

Steven  J.  Miller  and  Suzanne  Fisher  re- 
centlv  finished  renovating  their  new  home 
at  2735  Landon  Rd.,  Shaker  Heights,  Ohio 
44122. 

Annette  L.  Nazareth  and  her  husband, 
Roger  Ferguson,  Jr.,  announce  the  birth  of 
Roger  III  on  July  4  Dolores  LaForte 
Nazareth  '5?  is  the  grandmother.  Annette 
and  Roger  live  in  New  Rochelle,  N.Y. 

Elizabeth  M.  Sweeney  has  been  trans- 
ferred back  to  the  New  York  office  of  Shear- 
man &  Sterling  after  more  than  four  years  in 
Tokyo.  "I'm  looking  forward  to  seeing  old 
friends  on  a  regular  basis,  instead  of  a  rushed 
dinner  or  lunch  squeezed  into  a  trip  back 
home.  I'm  also  looking  forward  to  getting 
reacquainted  with  New  York,  which,  if  news 
reports  are  to  be  believed,  is  a  much-changed 
place  in  the  years  I've  been  away." 


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Ann  Morris  Hart  and  David  G.  Hart  live 
in  the  Tampa  Bay  area,  where  David  has  been 
with  GTE  Data  Services  for  ten  years.  They 
have  two  boys,  John,  6,  and  Michael,  3.  John 
is  autistic,  and  Ann  and  David  welcome  in- 
formation from  alumni  who  have  an  autistic 
child  or  who  have  experience  in  dealing  with 
the  handicap.  Their  address  is  602  Herchel 
Dr.,  Temple  Terrace,  Fla.  33617.  (813)  988-9203. 

Robert  F.  Schiff  practices  law  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  He  is  "still  singing  and  still  single." 


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Leila  Afzal  and  Malcolm  Byrne  (Tufts  77) 
announce  the  birth  of  Kian  Franklin  Byrne  on 
Oct.  24.  They  live  in  Washington,  D.C. 

Mari  L.  Alschuler,  New  "\  ork  City,  is  a 
psychiatric  social  worker  and  a  psychothera- 
py candidate  at  Gestalt  Associates  for  Psycho- 
therapy. She  continues  to  write  poetry  and 
recently  had  a  poem  in  the  anthology,  Blood 


lo  Remember:  American  Poets  on  the  Holoi  aust 

Steve  Burkett  and  his  wife,  Sally,  announce 
the  birth  of  Sarah  Litton  Burkett  on  Sept.  15. 
"It  in  1  louston,  I  exas,  come  join  the  sleepless 
nights 

Lansing  Moore  and  his  wife,  [liana  En- 
gclkc  Moore,  announce  the  birth  of  Lansing, 
Jr.,  on  April  24,  1990.  I  lis  grandmother  is 
Elizabeth  Tonkin  Moore  '^4.  The  child  and 
his  new  friend,  Cameron,  son  of  Jennifer 
Just  Darling  '81  and  Corey  Darling,  "are  get- 
ting acquainted  during  playdates  in  the 
t  atskills."  Lansing  and  Iliana  live  in  Tan- 
nersville,  N.Y. 

Elizabeth  Roberts  moved  to  Cambridge. 
Mass.,  last  summer  and  continues  to  work  as 
a  neuropsychologist  in  North  Andover,  Mass. 


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Rita  A.  Ballesteros  and  her  husband,  Dr. 
Christian  Ockenhouse,  are  in  Seoul,  Korea, 
for  a  year  while  Christian  is  assigned  to  the 
U.S.  Army  Hospital.  Rita  is  working  for 
KPMG  San  Tong  in  consulting.  "So  far  we're 
enjoying  our  stay  but  it  sure  is  different  from 
Washington,  D.C,  where  he  had  been."  They 
can  be  reached  c/o  Ockenhouse,  121  Evac 
Hosp.,  Unit  15244,  APO  AP  96205-0017. 

Denise  L.  Dowling,  East  Greenwich,  R.I., 
says  thanks  to  the  reunion  committee  for  a 
great  weekend.  "I  thoroughly  enjoyed  seeing 
my  classmates.  Ten  years  seemed  to  evapo- 
rate before  my  eyes.  Special  thanks  to  Jane 
Dray  and  Richard  Katzman  for  their  enthusi- 
astic welcome.  See  you  all  next  year." 

Dr.  Karyn  Grimm  Herndon,  Chicago, 
writes  that  Stuart  Putnam  Herndon  arrived 
on  Aug.  1.  His  parents  and  big  brother,  Carl, 
are  adjusting  well. 

Steven  J.  Horvitz  In  es  in  Bethesda,  Md., 
with  his  wife,  Laurie,  and  two  children,  Karen 
and  Kevin.  Steve  is  a  partner  in  the  Washing- 
ton, D.C,  law  firm  of  Cole,  Raywid  & 
Braverman,  specializing  in  cable  television 
matters. 

Susan  Newman  lives  in  Hastmgs-on-Hud- 
son,  N.Y.,  with  her  husband,  Lewis  Wvman. 
Formerly  involved  in  real  estate  finance  and 
development,  Susan  is  now  pursuing  a  career 
as  an  artist. 

Elizabeth  Schiff  was  a  bridesmaid  at  Mar- 
ianne Chelovich  s  '83  wedding.  Elizabeth's 
sons,  Jacob  Renee  Kaufman  and  Brian  Her- 
bert Kaufman,  were  born  on  Sept.  11,  1990. 
Her  husband,  Andy  Kaufman,  is  still  a  part- 
ner at  Wilson  Elser  Moskowitz  Edelman  & 
Dicker.  They  live  in  Manhattan. 


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The  countdown  to  the  10th  continues. 
Don't  miss  out  on  what  we're  sure  will  be  a 
memorable  10th  Reunion  Weekend,  May  22- 
25.  Our  Reunion  Activities  Committee  has 
planned  a  full  program  ot  1  e'S2  events,  in 
addition  to  the  traditional  Campus  Dance, 
Commencement  Forums,  and  Hour  with  the 
President.  We  hope  to  see  you  there! 

Linda  Alpert-Gillis  and  her  husband, 
Steve,  announce  the  birth  of  Sarah  Elizabeth 
on  Sept.  10.  They  live  in  Webster,  N.Y. 


Steven  Jones  and  Kate  Miller  haw  moved 
I"  Berkeley,  Calif.  Steven  is  linishing  a  mas- 
ter's program  in  public  health,  and  Kate  is  an 
attorney  in  San  Francisco    I  he  information 
was  furnished  by  Peter  Jones  74,  I  lamden, 
C  onn 

Vanessa  Turi  Pesec  and  John  Pesec  moved 
to  "i  okohama,  Japan,  where  John  is  Pacific 
Rim  sales  manager  for  Keithh  Instruments, 
an  electronic  instrument  manufacturer  head- 
quartered in  Ohio.  Vanessa  is  deciding 
whether  to  teach  English,  study  Japanese  de- 
sign, travel,  or  join  the  full-time  workaholic 
world  and  risk  karooshi  (death  from  over 
working).  Their  address  is  Yille  Neuve  Apt. 
213,  55  Nakao  dai,  Naka-Ku,  Yokohama  231 
Japan.  Tel.:  045-622-6782. 

Harry  B.  Rosenberg,  Jr.,  has  been  elected 
a  partner  in  the  Chicago  office  of  the  law 
firm  of  Querrey  &  Harrow,  Ltd.  His  area  of 
litigation  expertise  includes  first-party  fire 
and  theft  claims,  fraud  litigation,  and  other 
actions  involving  fire  and  property  damage. 
He  lives  in  Chicago 

Steven  Spiegel  recently  started  a  boutique 
law  firm  in  Manhattan  specializing  in  real 
estate  and  known  as  Spiegel  &  Levitt.  He  was 
formerly  associated  with  Skadden,  Arps,  Slate, 
Meagher  &  Flom.  Steve  lives  in  Warwick, 
N.Y.,  with  his  wife,  Jane,  and  son,  Jason,  2.  He 
can  be  reached  at  225  Broadway,  Suite  1200, 
New  York,  N.Y.  10017.  (212)  766-1664. 

Philip  J.  Squattrito  is  an  assistant  profes- 
sor of  chemistry  at  Central  Michigan  Univer- 
sity. One  of  his  colleagues  in  the  chemistry 
department  is  John  Loran  '58.  Phil  recently 
acquired  some  instrumentation  and  is  pursu- 
ing research  interests  in  X-ray  crystallography. 
Earlier  this  year  on  a  trip  east,  he  visited  with 
classmates  Dan  Ladow,  a  lawyer  in  New  York 
City,  and  Colin  Aaron,  now  a  law  student 
at  Gonzaga  University.  Phil  lives  in  Mount 
Pleasant,  Mich. 


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Claire  Mcllhenny  Dempsey  and  her  hus- 
band. Jack,  are  living  in  Sydney,  Australia, 
through  September  1992.  Friends  are  invited 
to  look  them  up  at  Apt.  4,  6  Mosman  St., 
Mosman  NSW  2088,  Australia. 

Kit  Reed  Hall  (see  Richard  E.  Thayer  '69). 

Dr.  Tamara  J.  Hoover  completed  her  sur- 
gical internship  at  Naval  Hospital  Oakland 
and  is  a  student  flight  surgeon  at  the  Naval 
Air  Station  Pensacola,  Fla.  "In  civilian  lan- 
guage this  means  I'll  learn  aerospace  medi- 
cine, how  to  fly  jets,  and  then  go  somewhere 
in  the  world  to  take  care  of  a  squadron  of 
pilots  and  their  dependents  for  a  couple  of 
years  to  pay  back  my  scholarship.  It's  like  be- 
ing paid  to  be  at  Club  Med  and  a  great  ad- 
venture simultaneously.  If  you  find  yourself 
looking  for  some  volleyball  on  the  beach  in 
West  Florida,  give  me  a  Kill.  (M04)  492-5553." 

Henry  E.  Katz  and  Sharon  Siegelwaks,  a 
physical  therapist,  were  married  last  summer 
and  honeymooned  in  Hawaii.  Friends  inter- 
ested in  computer-assisted  neuroanatomy 
research  can  reach  Henry  at  henry@thing3.- 
med.nvu.edu. 

Irvin  J.  Lustig  and  his  wife,  Susan,  an- 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  55 


nounce  the  birth  of  Joanna  Rose  Lustig  on 
Nov.  3.  They  live  in  Princeton,  N.J. 

Tracy  A.  Revis,  Alexandria,  Va.,  is  a  free- 
lance architect/exhibit  designer  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  and  recently  finished  designing  her 
husband's  gourmet  pizza  restaurant,  Pizza 
de  Resistance,  in  Arlington,  Va.,  just  across 
the  bridge  from  Georgetown.  For  the  past 
two  years,  Tracy  has  been  working  on  a  large 
interactive  exhibit  on  global  environmental 
issues  with  a  focus  on  wildlife  research.  She 
and  her  husband  are  trying  to  sell  the  chairs 
they  designed  for  the  restaurant  to  Eurodis- 
ney  through  a  furniture  agent. 

Anne  Schwartz  works  in  Washington, 
D.C.,  for  the  Physician  Payment  Review 
Commission  and  is  completing  coursework 
for  a  doctorate  in  health  policy  at  Johns  Hop- 
kins. She  was  married  last  April  to  David 
Stonner,  a  legislative  analyst  for  the  National 
Science  Foundation. 

Ellen  Windemuth  is  director  of  sales  and 
reproductions  for  Atlantis,  a  Canadian  tele- 
vision and  film  production  company.  She  has 
worked  in  Amsterdam,  The  Netherlands,  for 
the  past  two-and-a-half  years. 


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Debra  Lang  Culhane  and  Brian  T.  Cul- 

hane  announce  the  birth  of  Alison  Gabrielle 
on  Aug.  4.  "She  came  with  lots  of  hair;  a  Bru- 
in-ette,  of  course."  Debra  and  Brian  live  in 
Reston,  Va. 

Moira  Ann  Murphy-Aguilar  and  her  hus- 
band, Roberto  Aguilar,  announce  the  birth  of 
Johan  Alexander  Robert  Aguilar  on  Oct.  23. 
Stephan  is  3.  Laura  Emmons  '86,  certified 
nurse  and  midwife,  assisted  in  the  birth.  Moira 
received  her  master's  degree  in  law  and 
diplomacy  from  the  Fletcher  School  in  May. 
The  family  lives  in  Boston. 

Janine  Roeth  married  Henry  Hooker  in 
the  hills  of  Santa  Cruz,  Calif.,  in  the  company 
of  a  dozen  Brown  friends.  They  live  in  Santa 
Cruz,  where  Henry  is  an  architect  on  the  staff 
at  the  University  of  California  at  Santa  Cruz, 
and  Janine  "commutes  over  the  hill"  to  Ap- 
ple Computer  in  Silicon  Valley. 


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Cameron  Barr,  a  staff  writer  at  the  Chris- 
tum Science  Monitor,  planned  to  spend  the 
first  three  months  of  1992  living  and  writing 
in  India,  mostly  in  Banaras  and  New  Delhi. 
He  lives  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

Matthew  C.  Brown  and  Suzanne  Andrews 
'85  were  married  on  June  8  in  Eastham,  Mass. 
They  took  a  wedding  trip  to  Hawaii  and  now 
live  in  Palo  Alto,  Calif 

Risa  M.  Dinman  and  Brian  Lavelle  plan  to 
marry  in  April.  They  are  in  real  estate  in 
Boston  but  plan  to  move  west  "in  search  of  a 
less  stressful  life  and  some  serious  mountain 
climbing."  Risa  lives  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

Deborah  H.  Guiher,  New  York  City, 
writes  that  Jennifer  Weigel  and  Gene  Chin 
were  married  on  Oct.  13,  1990.  A  large  con- 
tingent of  classmates  attended. 


56  /  MARCH   1992 


Maria  Nadeau  was  married  to  Jeremy 
Greene  on  Aug.  17  in  Bristol,  R.I.  Ann-Mara 
Scheff  was  in  the  wedding  party.  Maria  and 
Jeremy  live  in  Marlborough,  Mass. 


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Erika  C.  Collins,  after  working  eighteen 
months  for  a  San  Francisco  law  firm  in  Tokyo, 
and  two  months  traveling  in  Southeast  Asia, 
is  a  law  student  at  UC-Davis.  Her  address 
is  606  Alvarado  Ave.  #19,  Davis,  Calif.  95616. 

Mary  S.  Ikeda  and  Steve  Berger  were  en- 
gaged in  August  before  a  Royals  baseball  game 
in  Kansas  City.  "If  we  can  get  our  act  togeth- 
er between  trimesters,  we'll  be  married  next 
September.  If  not,  we'll  wait  until  1993,  may- 
be around  Commencement."  Mary  is  with 
Andersen  Consulting  in  Boston,  and  Steve  is 
a  student  at  Tuck  Business  School.  They  live 
at  65  Chestnut  St.,  Wakefield,  Mass.  01880. 

Allison  Nurse  completed  a  two-vear  ap- 
prentice program  with  the  Alvin  Ailev  Com- 
pany and  recently  joined  the  New  Jersey- 
based  Alfred  Galman  dance  troupe.  The  news 
was  sent  by  her  father,  Richard  A.  Nurse  '61, 
Monmouth  Junction,  N.J. 

Jane  Root  passed  the  California  Bar  exam 
in  July  and  is  an  associate  at  the  law  firm  of 
Musick,  Peeler  &  Garrett  in  Los  Angeles.  She 
can  be  reached  at  (213)  663-6916. 


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Nina  A.  DeJesus  and  David  Bowman 
(Morehouse  College)  were  married  on  July  6. 
They  live  in  Santa  Clara,  Calif. 

Robert  C.  Gill  is  working  on  a  task  force 
for  education  reform  with  the  Massachusetts 
Joint  Committee  on  Education.  His  address 
is  88  Exeter  St.,  #53,  Boston,  Mass.  02116. 

David  J.  Howard  (see  Peter  B.  Howard  '58). 

H.  Troy  Luckett  is  in  the  third  vear  of  his 
doctorate  in  clinical  psychology  at  Wright 
State  University  in  Dayton,  Ohio.  He  com- 
pleted his  oral  exams  in  November  and  is 
hoping  to  do  his  internship  in  the  Chicago 
area.  His  address  is  4944  Woodman  Park  Dr. 
#4,  Dayton  45432. 

Kathryn  M.  Quadracci  is  a  first-year  stu- 
dent at  Columbia  University  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  and  lives  in  New 
York  City. 

Stacey  Williams  Wyman  and  David 
Cromly  were  married  on  Aug.  17  in  New 
Canaan,  Conn  Susan  Blackman  was  a  brides- 
maid, best  man  was  D.  Michael  Tate,  and 
ushers  included  Bill  Katowitz.  Many  other 
members  of  the  class  of  1989  were  in  atten- 
dance. Stacev  and  David  are  both  first-vear 
students  at  the  University  of  Virginia  School 
of  Law.  Their  address  is  62-D  Barclay  PI.  Ct., 
Charlottesville,  Va.  22901.  (804)  979-9428. 


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Jonathan  G.  Davis  has  been  promoted  to 
loan  officer  in  Shawmut  Bank's  commercial 
real  estate  division  in  the  Tewksbury,  Mass., 
office.  He  is  a  mentor  in  Shawmut's  School 
Mentor  Program  and  lives  in  Boston. 


Stefan  I.  McDonough  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
in  biology,  with  an  interest  in  biophysics,  at 
Caltech.  "Whenever  I  can,  I  escape  to  San 
Diego,  San  Francisco,  or  the  Sierras."  Stefan 
lives  in  Pasadena,  Calif. 

Kimberly  Sewall  (see  Steve  Sewall  '61). 


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Joe  Drevlow  is  a  merchant  with  Cargill 
Inc.  in  Fargo,  N.D. 

Alexander  S.  Lash,  San  Francisco,  writes 
a  weekly  music  column  for  the  San  Francisco 
Bay  Guardian  and  is  working  on  the  launch 
of  a  new  multimedia  magazine. 

Emily  J.  Murphy  works  at  the  Guggenheim 
Museum  in  New  York  City,  and  is  having 
lots  of  fun. 

Eden  E.  Parker  and  James  T.  Condict 
were  married  on  Aug.  3  in  a  Quaker  cere- 
mony in  Boston.  Both  Eden  and  Jim  took  the 
new  last  name  of  Grace.  After  the  ceremony, 
they  traveled  to  Kenya,  where  they  were 
New  England  delegates  at  the  5th  World 
Conference  of  Friends.  After  two  months  in 
Kenya,  thev  returned  to  Somerville,  Mass. 


GS 


Wilma  Robb  Ebbitt  '43  Ph.D.  (see  David 
R.  Ebbitt  41) 

Shirley  McAllister  Ludwig  '46  A.M.  is  re- 
tired as  an  English  instructor  at  Wayne  State 
University  and  at  Montgomery  College  in 
Maryland.  She  has  seven  children,  all  mar- 
ried and  all  with  college  degrees,  and  eight 
grandchildren,  ranging  in  age  from  8  years  to 
1  month.  She  and  her  husband,  Leon,  a  re- 
tired U.S.  customs  attorney,  live  on  acreage 
by  a  little  lake  in  Wellsboro,  Pa.,  in  the  north 
central  region  of  the  state.  "We  love  the 
country,"  Shirley  writes,  "but  we  spend  win- 
ters in  our  condo  in  Rockville,  Md." 

David  Maxwell  '68  A.M.,  '74  Ph.D.,  presi- 
dent of  Whitman  College  in  Walla  Walla, 
Wash.,  has  been  named  vice  chair  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Council  on  Interna- 
tional Educational  Exchange.  The  CIEE  is  one 
of  the  largest  educational  organizations  in 
the  country,  with  more  than  200  member 
institutions,  and  administers  academic  ex- 
changes for  students  all  over  the  world. 
Before  becoming  president  of  Whitman  Col- 
lege, Maxwell  was  dean  of  undergraduate 
studies  at  Tufts. 

Richard  E.  Thayer  '75  Ph.D.  (see  '69). 


MD 


Stephen  Margulis  '81  MD.  (see  78). 


Obituaries 


Dorothy  Bennett  Vaughn  '20,  North  Provi- 
dence,  R.I.;  Dec.  26.  She  was  a  librarian  in  the 
l'n>\  idence  Public  Library  system  and  at 
Brown's  John  H<\\  Library.  She  later  was 
director  ot  religious  education  at  Calvary 
Church  in  New  York  City,  at  Christ  Church 
in  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  then  at  other  Episco- 
pal churches  in  Virginia.  Survivors  include  a 
son,  Richard  '52,  53  Garden  City  Dr.,  Apt.  5, 
Cranston.  R.I.  02920. 

Joel  Martin  Nichols  '21,  Sedona,  Ariz.;  Dec. 
13,  I  le  was  a  journalist  for  the  Hartford 
Courant  and  the  old  New  York  Herald,  author 
of  adventure  and  mystery  stories  for  pulp 
magazines,  and  spent  twenty  years  in  adver- 
tising, chiefly  as  vice  president  and  director 
of  the  Federal  Advertising  Agency,  during 
which  time  he  created  the  Sinclair  Refining 
Company's  "Mellowed  100  Million  Years" 
oil  slogan  featuring  dinosaurs.  He  was  a  sec- 
ond lieutenant  in  World  War  I  and  in  World 
War  II  worked  briefly  in  the  Office  of  War 
Information  in  Washington,  D.C.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  a  niece  and  two  nephews,  including 
Robert  Nichols,  470  Brewer  Rd.,  Sedona 
86336. 

Dr.  Roger  Waldemar  Nelson  '22,  De  Bary, 
Fla.;  Oct.  21.  He  was  a  physician  at  Veterans 
Administration  hospitals  in  Martinsburg,  W. 
Va.,  and  Dublin,  Ga.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Mabel,  Box  292,  De  Bary  32713.  ' 

Elsie  P.  Swanson  '23,  Dunwoody,  Ga.;  Nov. 
2^  She  is  survived  by  her  niece,  Joan  Hodg- 
son, =045  Woodsong  Tr.,  Dunwoodv  30338. 

Milton  Elis  Raffel  26,  Stratford,  Conn.,  re- 
tired owner  of  Raffel's  Real  Estate  and  Insur- 
ance Agency,  Bridgeport,  Conn.;  Dec.  10. 
Survivors  include  three  children  and  his 
wile,  Mathilda,  1 71  -A  Chickasaw  Ln.,  Strat- 
ford ()64l!7 

Alfred  Lewis  Rafuse  26,  Sun  City  Center, 
Fla.;  Nov.  30.  1  le  was  employed,  for  a  time, 
bv  the  W.T.  Grant  Company.  He  is  survived 
by  a  daughter,  Diana  Burke,  address  un- 
known. 

Dr.  Dean  Holland  Echols  27,  New  Orleans, 
La.,  a  retired  neurosurgeon  at  the  Ochsner 
Clinic;  Nov.  26.  I  le  received  his  medical  de- 
gree from  tin'  Universit)  ot  Michigan  in  1931 
and  trained  as  a  resident  in  neurology  and 
neurosurgery  at  the  University  of  Michigan 
Hospital.  Ann  Arbor,  before  joining  the 
Ochsner  Clinic  when  it  opened  in  1942.  He 
remained  there  until  1974.  After  retiring,  he 
u  as  a  consultant  at  the  Veterans  Administra- 
tion 1  lospital  and  a  clinical  professor  at  Tu- 
lane  Medical  Center.  He  directed  and  orga- 
nized the  Alton  Ochsner  Medical  Foundation 
training  program  when  the  first  residents  ar- 
rived in  1944.  He  was  a  former  president  of 


the  American   V  aclemv  of  Neurological  Sur- 
gery,  the  American  Association  ot  Medical 
Clinics,  and  the  New  Orleans  Society  ol  Neu- 
rology and  Psychiatry,  and  was  a  founding 
member  of  the  Southern  Neurological  Soi  i 
ety.  He  was  a  major  in  the  Army  during 
World  War  II.  Among  his  survivors  are  his 
wife,  Frances,  1550  Second  St.,  New  Orleans 
"01  ill;  a  son;  and  two  daughters,  including 
Cynthia  Echols  Smith  64 

Lawrence  Sanford  Kennison  '28  A.M.,  West- 
port,  Mass.;  Dec.  2.  He  taught  mathematics  at 
Brooklyn  College  from  1932  to  1970  and  then 
continued  as  a  professor  of  mathematics  at 
Southeastern  Massachusetts  University,  now 
the  University  of  Massachusetts  at  Dart- 
mouth. He  was  a  member  of  the  American 
Mathematical  Society  and  the  Mathematical 
Association  of  America.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Sig- 
ma Xi.  He  was  a  commander  in  the  Navy 
during  World  War  II.  Survivors  include  four 
children  and  his  wife,  Jean,  1700  Drift  Rd., 
Westport  02790. 

Isabelle  V.  Rowell  '28,  Harwich,  Mass.,  a  re- 
tired high  school  teacher;  date  of  death  un- 
known. Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Sigma  Xi.  There  is 
no  information  regarding  survivors. 

Roy  Phillip  Johnson  '29,  San  Clemente, 
Calif.;  Jan.  4.  He  was  a  civil  engineer  for  the 
Exxon  Oil  Company  for  forty  years.  He  was  a 
veteran  of  World  War  II,  serving  with  dis- 
tinction in  the  U.S.  Army  as  a  corporal.  Sur- 
vivors include  a  niece,  Sally  Beardsworth, 
3192  Post  Rd.,  Warwick,  R.I.  02886. 

George  Milan  Tinker  '29,  Providence;  Dec. 
27.  He  studied  opera  at  the  Paris  Conservato- 
ry in  France  and  then  taught  briefly  at  Rhode 
Island  State  College,  now  the  University  of 
Rhode  Island,  and  at  Brown.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  music  department  at  the  Wheeler 
School,  Providence,  for  forty  years  before  re- 
tiring in  1974.  For  many  years  he  was  organ- 
ist and  choirmaster  at  the  Cathedral  of  St. 
John,  Providence,  and  served  at  churches  in 
Fall  River,  Mass.,  and  Attleboro,  Mass.  He 
also  sang  at  Temple  Beth-El,  Providence,  for 
many  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Guild  of  Organists  and  was  an  Army  vet- 
eran of  World  War  II.  Survivors  include  a 
son,  Thomas,  15  Seafarer  Ct.,  Jamestown,  R.l. 
02835. 

Iola  Hobbs  Newton  '30,  Lancaster,  Pa.;  Oct. 
20.  She  was  a  long-time  member  of  the  auxil- 
iarv  to  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  Profes- 
sional Engineers  and  a  Paul  Harris  Fellow  of 
Rotarv  International.  Among  her  survn  ors 
are  a  son  and  two  daughters,  including 
Joanne  T.  Lahey,  218  Surplus  St.,  Duxburv, 
Mass.  02332. 

H.  Adrian  Smith  '30,  North  Attleboro.  Mass.; 
Jan.  13.  He  was  general  manager  of  the 
Charles  D.  Burnes  Picture  Frame  Manufac- 
turing Company,  Boston,  for  sixteen  years 
before  retiring  in  1974.  Previously,  he  u  as 
vice  president  of  the  Bishop  Optical  Compa- 


ny and  the  Pave  &  Baker  Manufacturing 
Company.  But  it  was  for  his  avocation,  that 
ol  L\n  internationally  known  magician,  that 
he  was  best  remembered.  1  le  began  perform- 
ing magic  at  the  age  ot  8  and  throughout  his 
long  career  accumulated  many  honors,  in- 
cluding induction  into  the  Society  of  the 
American  Magicians  Hall  of  Fame  in  1976. 
His  collection  of  magic,  which  he  gave  to 
Brown,  comprises  10,000  books,  prints,  and 
items  of  apparatus,  and  is  considered  the 
equal  of  the  1  loudini  Collection  at  the  Li- 
brary  of  Congress,  Washington,  D.C.  He  was 
an  Army  veteran  of  World  War  II  and  fought 
in  the  Battle  of  Okinawa.  There  are  no  imme- 
diate survivors. 

Frank  Eldredge  Merchant  '31,  '32  A.M., 
Barbourv  ille,  Ky.,  professor  emeritus  and  for- 
mer head  of  English  at  Union  College;  June 
16.  He  is  survived  bv  his  wife,  Christine,  125 
South  Allison  Ave.,  Barbourville  40906. 

Robert  Gratian  Tyrrell  '32,  Elmira,  N.Y.; 
Dec.  28.  He  was  retired  senior  job  and  wage 
analyst  at  Corning  Glass  Works  in  Corning, 
N.Y.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth, 
1 12  Oakdale  Dr.,  Elmira  14905;  and  a  son, 
Robert,  Jr.  '63. 

Nicholas  Stamos  Logothets  '33,  '37  A.M., 
Portsmouth,  R.I.;  Dec.  1.  He  began  his  teach- 
ing career  in  Providence  and  then  taught 
mathematics  at  Rogers  High  School,  New- 
port, R.I.,  beginning  in  1939.  In  1946,  he  be- 
came dean  of  boys  at  Rogers,  and  in  1948  he 
became  the  first  director  of  guidance  in  the 
Newport  public  school  system.  In  1957,  he 
became  the  first  director  of  secondary  educa- 
tion for  the  Newport  public  schools,  and  in 
1970  was  named  the  first  assistant  superin- 
tendent. He  also  taught  at  Salve  Regina  Col- 
lege, the  Newport  Naval  Base,  and  the  exten- 
sion division  of  Rhode  Island  College.  Upon 
his  retirement,  he  served  as  a  part-time  su- 
perintendent in  Jamestown,  R.I.,  for  two 
years.  He  was  a  past  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  Newport  Public  Library.  A 
violinist,  he  played  for  manv  years  with  the 
Newport  Community  Orchestra  and  for  a 
string  quartet.  Survivors  include  a  son, 
Nicholas,  Jr.,  2  Bayside  Rd.,  Middletown,  R.I. 
02840;  and  two  daughters. 

David  S.R.  McCall  '33,  Cranston,  R.I.;  Sept. 
1 3.  Sur\  ivors  include  two  daughters  and  his 
wife,  Florence,  91  Richland  Rd.,  Cranston 
02910. 

Herbert  Carey  Simpson  '33,  Charlotte,  N.C.; 
Dec.  27.  He  was  a  retired  hardware  products 
manufacturers  representative  and  had  work- 
ed for  American  Viscose  in  New  York  City. 
He  served  in  Africa  and  Italy  with  the  Army 
Air  Corps  during  World  War  II.  He  is  sur- 
vived bv  his  wife,  Billie,  3401  Tinkerbell  Ln., 
Charlotte  28210. 

William  Brockenton  Stewart  '33,  Scarbor- 
ough, N.Y.,  a  retired  New  York  advertising 
executive;  Dec.  6.  He  held  senior  positions  at 


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Compton  Advertising;  Needham,  Harper  & 
Steers;  and  the  Ted  Bates  Agency  before  go- 
ing into  business  on  his  own  as  a  marketing 
and  recruiting  consultant  in  the  late  1960s. 
He  returned  to  Ted  Bates  in  1976  as  assistant 
to  the  chairman  and  retired  in  1982  as  senior 
vice  president  worldwide.  The  agency  since 
has  been  merged  into  Backer  Spielvogel 
Bates  Inc.,  a  subsidiary  of  Saatchi  &  Saatchi 
Advertising.  Survivors  include  three  children 
and  his  wife,  Frances,  Box  51,  Scarborough 
10510. 

Harold  Melvin  Wagner  '33,  Oakton,  Va.;  Oct. 
30.  He  retired  as  director  of  special  events  for 
Mutual  Broadcasting  System,  Inc.,  New  York 
City,  after  a  long  career.  He  began  radio 
broadcasting  with  WESG,  Elmira,  N.Y.,  in 
1937.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Alverna, 
11710  Sumacs  St.,  Oakton  22124. 

James  Butler  Mullen  '36,  Burlington,  Conn.; 
Oct.  11.  He  was  secretary,  treasurer,  and 
business  manager  for  Robert  E.  Parsons,  Inc., 
Farmington,  Conn.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Helen  Hartigan  Mullen  '36,  89  Canton 
Rd.,  Burlington  06013. 

Virginia  Taylor  Pearson  '36,  Milwaukee, 
Wis.;  July  21 .  She  was  active  in  community 
work,  including  Hospice  in  Branford,  Conn. 
Her  father,  Will  Taylor,  was  chairman  of  the 
art  department  at  Brown  from  1926  to  1947. 
Among  the  survivors  are  her  husband,  John, 
Lutheran  Manor,  4535  North  92nd  St.,  T  109, 
Milwaukee  53225;  two  sons,  including  Taylor 
'61;  a  daughter;  and  a  sister,  Carol  Taylor 
Carlisle  '43. 

Horace  Lynford  Henry,  Jr.  '37,  Richland, 
Wash.;  Sept.  30.  He  retired  in  1982  from  Bat- 
telle  Memorial  Institute,  Pacific  Northwest 
Laboratories,  where  he  had  been  manager  of 
safety  and  nuclear  materials  management. 
Survivors  include  a  son,  Peter,  75  McMurray, 
Richland  99352. 

Lt.  Col.  Norden  Berrick  Schloss  '39,  USAF 
(Ret.),  Roxboro,  N.C.;  Oct.  26.  He  retired  as 
owner  of  Roxboro  Realty  Company  in  1982 
and  was  a  veteran  of  World  War  II.  He  is 
survived  by  five  children  and  his  wife,  Kath- 
arine, 240  North  Lamar  St.,  Roxboro  27573. 

Dr.  William  James  MacDonald  '40,  Rum- 
ford,  R.I.,  an  obstetrician  and  gynecologist  in 
Providence;  May  1.  He  was  chairman  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  Blue  Shield  of  Rhode  Is- 
land and  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  national  Blue  Shield  Association.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Blue  Cross  board 
of  directors.  He  was  a  former  chief  of  obstet- 
rics at  Women  and  Infants  Hospital  and  was 
a  consultant  at  Rhode  Island  Hospital,  Paw- 
tucket  Memorial  Hospital,  St.  Joseph's  Hos- 
pital, and  Woonsocket  (R.I.)  Hospital.  He 
was  a  past  chairman  of  the  Rhode  Island  Sec- 
tion of  the  American  College  of  Obstetrics 
and  Gynecology  and  a  past  board  member 
and  vice  chairman  of  Rhode  Island  Health 
Services  Research,  Inc.  Among  his  survivors 
are  his  wife,  Estelle,  50  Bent  Rd.,  Rumford 


02916;  and  five  children,  including  William, 
Jr.  '66,  Elizabeth  MacDonald  Kiernan  '74, 
and  Lisa  MacDonald  Carr  '77. 

Merrill  Leviss  '44,  Portsmouth,  R.I.,  a  partner 
in  Fall  River  Partnership,  a  real  estate  firm; 
Sept.  17.  Survivors  include  his  wife,  Gloria, 
215  Sea  Meadow  Dr.,  Portsmouth  02871;  and 
a  sister,  Irma  Leviss  Perlman  '40. 

John  Lawrence  McHale,  Jr  '44,  Tawtucket, 
R.I.;  Dec.  11.  After  Ph.D.  work  in  physics  at 
Indiana  University  and  postdoctoral  work  at 
Yale,  he  went  to  Los  Alamos,  N.M.,  where  he 
worked  on  the  Manhattan  Project.  He  was  a 
physicist  with  the  Los  Alamos  National  Lab- 
oratory from  1954  until  1973.  He  was  an 
Army  veteran  of  World  War  II.  Survivors  in- 
clude three  daughters  and  a  brother,  James, 
80  Ferris  St.,  Pawtucket  02861. 

Evan  Whitlaw  Walters,  Jr.  '45,  Homestead, 
Fla.;  Oct.  19.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Pat, 
2290  SE  4th  Ct„  Homestead  33050. 

John  Farrar  Wattles  '45,  Miami,  Fla.;  Dec.  7. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Persis,  15800  SW 
84  Ct.,  Miami  33157. 

George  Coldwell  Huse  '46,  Greenville,  S.C.; 
Dec.  23.  He  was  a  former  vice  president  of  re- 
search and  development  for  Crown  Metro 
Company,  Greenville.  He  was  a  Navy  veter- 
an of  World  War  II.  Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Virginia,  11  Terrain  Dr.,  Greenville 
29605;  and  two  children. 

Thomas  Anthony  Maguire  '49,  Pawtucket, 
R.I.;  Jan.  4.  He  was  a  jewelry  findings  sales- 
man for  John  F.  Maguire  &  Company,  Inc., 
Pawtucket.  He  is  survived  by  three  sons,  in- 
cluding Thomas,  Jr.,  27  Desmarsis  Ave.,  Paw- 
tucket 02861. 

Robert  Burland  Litchfield  '50,  Danbury, 
Conn.;  Sept.  11.  He  was  manager  of  special 
services  for  the  instrument  division  at 
Perkin-Elmer  Corporation,  Norwalk,  Conn. 
He  had  been  with  the  company  for  thirty 
years.  He  was  a  past  president  of  the  Dan- 
burv  Jaycees.  Survivors  include  two  daugh- 
ters and  his  wife,  Marjorie,  7  Horseshoe  Dr., 
Danbury  06810. 

Frank  Alan  Sternberg  '50,  Barrington,  R.I.; 
Dec.  23.  He  was  a  marketing  representative 
for  the  Quincv  Mutual  Insurance  Company 
for  seven  years,  retiring  in  1990.  Before  that, 
he  was  the  marketing  manager  for  the  former 
American  Universal  Insurance  Company  of 
Providence.  He  was  a  youth  hockey  coach  in 
Barrington  and  the  hockey  coach  at  Barring- 
ton  High  School  for  several  years.  During 
World  War  II  he  served  in  the  Navy.  Sur- 
vivors include  two  children  and  his  wife, 
Jean,  20  Primrose  Hill  Rd.,  Barrington  02806. 

Dr.  Leon  Benjamin  Leach  '52,  Belmont, 
Mass.;  Jan.  6.  He  was  a  dentist  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  for  thirty-three  years.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Massachusetts  Dental  Society  and 
the  Harvard  Odontological  Society.  He  bicy- 


cled and  sailed  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Krishnamurti  Foundation.  Survivors  include 
two  children  and  his  wife,  Maryann,  105  Ju- 
niper Rd.,  Belmont  02178. 

William  Thornton  Shaw  '52,  Walpole,  Mass.; 
Dec.  3.  He  had  been  controller  for  the  build- 
ing materials  products  group  of  Bird  &  Son, 
Inc.,  Walpole.  There  is  no  information  re- 
garding survivors. 

Robert  Bradford  Rider  '53,  Basking  Ridge, 
N.J.;  July  20,  of  cancer.  A  graduate  of  the 
Wharton  School,  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
after  serving  in  the  U.S.  Army,  he  was  direc- 
tor of  information  systems  for  Sun  Chemical 
Corporation  and  its  successor  company,  Se- 
qua,  Inc.,  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  then 
president  of  Lanframe  Systems,  Inc.,  a  com- 
puter consulting  firm.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Ruth,  120  Cross  Rd.,  Basking  Ridge 
07920;  and  two  daughters. 

Philip  Corbin  Lenz,  Jr.  '57,  Freeport,  Maine- 
Dec.  9.  He  was  an  engineer  and  for  a  time 
worked  for  Armco  Steel  Corporation  in 
Connecticut.  Survivors  include  his  parents 
and  his  wife,  Judith,  5  Harvey  Brook  Dr., 
Freeport  04032. 

Edward  Francis  McSweeney  in  '60,  New 
York  City;  June  17,  of  a  gunshot  wound  to 
the  head,  apparently  self-inflicted,  according 
to  the  police.  At  his  death  he  was  associated 
with  Brimberg  &  Company,  which  advised 
American  businesses  on  setting  up  ventures 
in  Hungary  and  the  Soviet  Union.  Earlier  he 
had  been  with  the  investment  banking  con- 
cerns of  Rotan  Mosle  Inc.  and  Ladenburg 
Thalmann  &  Company.  Survivors  include 
five  children  and  his  wife,  Christine,  1155 
Park  Ave.,  New  York  10128. 

Carl  Edward  Mooradian  '64,  Niagara  Falls, 
N.Y.;  Mav  30.  He  was  Niagara  Falls  Corpora- 
tion Counsel  for  fifteen  years  before  retiring 
in  December  1990  because  of  ill  health.  No- 
table during  his  tenure  was  his  defense  of  the 
city  during  the  Love  Canal  environmental 
disaster  and  subsequent  lawsuits.  He  served 
in  the  U.S.  Army  from  1967  to  1969,  a  year  of 
that  in  Vietnam.  He  coached  children's 
leagues  in  baseball,  basketball,  and  soccer. 
Among  his  survivors  are  his  wife,  Kathryn, 
621  Vanderbilt  Ave.,  Niagara  Falls  14305; 
and  three  children,  including  Wendy  '93. 

Edwin  James  Klein,  Jr.  '67,  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.;  Sept.  23.  He  was  an  investment  advi- 
sor for  Clarion  Financial  International,  Los 
Angeles.  Survivors  include  his  daughter,  Al- 
lison '94. 

Juergen  Reinhardt  '68,  Madison,  Wis.;  Sept. 
18,  in  a  traffic  accident.  A  geologist  for  the 
U.S.  Geological  Surverv  for  fifteen  years,  he 
was  appointed  state  geologist  of  Wisconsin 
and  director  of  the  state's  geological  and  nat- 
ural history  survey  in  July  1991.  Over  the 
years,  he  worked  from  offices  in  Reston,  \'a., 
mapping  coastal  sediments  and  erosion 
along  the  eastern  Gulf  of  Mexico  coast  and 


58  /  MARCH   1992 


Harcourt  Brown  1939 


Brown  has  been  known  for  years  for  its  good 
student-faculty  chemistry.  Tliis  is  a  small  sto- 
ry about  that  chemistry. 

Two  years  ago,  the  magazine  received  a 
letter  from  Jennifer  S.  H.  Brown  '62,  a  pro- 
fessor of  history  at  the  University  of  Win- 
nipeg. It  contained  a  simple  request: 
would  the  magazine  print  a  letter-to-the- 
editor  she  enclosed  about  her  father,  Har- 
court Brown,  who  taught  French  literature 
at  Brown  from  1937  to  1969  and  who  was 
about  to  celebrate  his  ninetieth  birthday. 

The  BAM  printed  the  letter  in  the  April 
1990  issue.  In  it  Jennifer  Brown  and  her 
husband,  Wilson  B.  Brown  '61,  told  of 
their  hope  to  present  to  Harcourt  Brown, 
as  a  birthday  present,  "a  collection  of  let- 
ters and  cards  from  any  old  friends,  col- 
leagues, and  former  students  who  would 
care  to  write  to  him." 

When  Harcourt  Brown  retired  from 
Brown,  the  BAM  wrote  that  "he  had  paid 
particular  attention  to  the  intellectual  and 
literary  history  of  France.  Interested  espe- 
cially in  such  authors  as  Rabelais,  Pascal, 
and  Voltaire,  he  has  devoted  much  of  his 
research  and  publication  to  the  history  of 
the  development  of  science  in  the  seven- 
teenth and  eighteenth  centuries.  He  is 
highly  respected  bv  all  Renaissance  schol- 
ars. In  1936,  he  was  among  the  founders  of 
Annals  of  Science,  a  quarterly  review  of  the 


the  southern  Atlantic  coast  of  the  U.S.  He 
had  worked  with  the  U.S.  Interior  Depart- 
ment's Coastal  Barrier  Task  Force,  was  on  the 
Savannah  River  Planet  Earth  Science  Adviso- 
ry Committee,  and  served  on  the  organizing 
committee  of  the  1989  International  Geologi- 
cal Congress  held  in  Washington,  D.C.  He 
was  a  fellow  of  the  Geological  Society  of 
America,  among  other  professional  organiza- 
tions, and  active  in  the  Boy  Scouts,  vouth 
soccer,  and  the  Salvation  Army.  Among  his 
survivors  are  his  wife,  Judith  Twiggar  Rein- 


Harcourt  Brown  1900  -  1990 


history  of  science  since  the  Renaissance, 
published  in  London.  Since  then,  he  has 
been  one  of  its  asso<  iate  editors." 

The  next  letter  we  received  from  |en- 
niier  Brown  contained  sad  news:  her  fa- 
ther had  died  in  November  1990,  six 
months  after  his  birthday.  But  he  had 
lived  to  receive  and  enjoy  more  than  sev- 
entv-five  letters  from  his  former  col- 
leagues and  students,  many  as  a  result  of 
the  letter  in  the  BAM. 

Among  alumni  who  wrote  was  John 
Mars  '41,  a  retired  superintendent  of  Cul- 
ver Military  Academy  and  Culver  Girls 
School  in  Indiana,  who  said  that  "your 
daughter's  letter  in  the  BAM  struck  me 
like  the  lady  finger  in  Proust's  A  la 
recherche.  Memories  of  my  year  in  your 
French  101-102  class  came  tumbling 
through  my  mind." 

Author  and  marine  historian  John 
Maxtone-Graham  '51  remembered  "with 
especial  pleasure  several  French  courses  I 
took  with  you,  among  the  most  memo- 
rable a  small  seminar  course  on  advanced 
literature."  Caryl  Ann  Miller  '59  wrote 
that  "I  can  picture  you  my  first  day  of 
class  freshman  year  .  .  .  Oh  dear,  you  ex- 
pected us  to  read  Saint  Exupery,  Pascal,  et 
al.,  when  all  I'd  been  taught  was  to  trans- 
late. What  a  difference!" 

Gervais  Reed  '64  Ph.  D,  now  the  Marie 
Wollpert  Professor  of  Modern  Languages 
at  Lawrence  University,  was  sure  that 
"those  of  us  who  had  the  privilege  of 
working  under  you  when  we  were  gradu- 
ate students  at  Brown  think  of  you  often, 
for  teachers  continue  as  teachers.  Al- 
though you  may  have  given  up  teaching 
in  the  class  room,  you  continue  to  teach  us 
as  we  teach  others." 

Jennifer  and  Wilson  Brown's  address  is  336 
Kings-way  Avenue,  Winnipeg,  Canada 
R3M  OH5. 


hardt  '67,  6215  South  Highlands  Ave.,  Madi- 
son 53703;  and  two  children. 

David  Robert  Meinster  '69  Ph.D.,  Church- 
ville.  Pa.;  June  19,  of  Hodgkin's  disease.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  professor  at 
the  School  of  Business  and  Management  at 
Temple  University  and  editor  of  the  Journal  of 
Economics  and  Business.  He  wrote  many  arti- 
cles on  macroeconomics,  money,  and  bank- 
ing, and  was  chairman  of  the  economics  de- 
partment at  Temple  from  1983  tol989.  He 


was  lirsl  dbciist  ,ii i.l  I  ni;hsli  horn  pLnvi  >.\  ill 
the  Bucks  County  (Pa.)  Symphony  Orchestra 
Survivors  include  two  sons  and  his  wile, 
Martha  O'Connor  Meinster  '68, 108  Merry 
Dell  Dr.,  Churchv i lie  18966 

Michael  Lee  Hollaender  '73  M.A.T.,  Naples, 
Fla.;  date  hi  death  unknown.  He  taught  gift- 
ed children  in  the  Collier  County  school  sys- 
tem in  Naples.  He  was  NASP  chairman  in 
the  Naples  area  for  five  years.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  Margarita,  3340  21st  Ave.  SW, 
Naples  33999. 

Kenneth  L.  Marshall  '73,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Dec. 
21,  of  cardiac  arrest  after  having  been  ill  with 
cancer.  He  was  an  assistant  district  attorney 
assigned  to  the  Juvenile  Court  as  a  prosecu- 
tor and  to  the  Superior  Court,  where  he  drew 
up  felony  charges  for  Fulton  County  from 
1978  until  his  death.  He  received  his  law  de- 
gree from  Duke  University  School  of  Law  in 
1976.  He  was  chairman  of  the  "Home  Front" 
Committee  of  AID  Atlanta,  which  estab- 
lished and  maintained  residences  for  people 
with  AIDS.  He  was  a  director  of  Planned  Par- 
enthood of  Atlanta,  a  founding  member  of 
Black  and  White  Men  Together/Atlanta,  and 
a  founding  board  member  of  the  Atlanta 
Campaign  for  Human  Rights.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Atlanta  Urban  League.  Sur- 
vivors include  his  father,  Claude,  of  Atlanta. 

Mitchell  F.  Daffner  '79,  West  Hartford, 
Conn.;  July  18.  He  worked  in  project  analysis 
for  Wheelabrator  Environmental  Systems 
Inc.,  Hampton,  N.H.  He  is  survived  bv  his 
parents,  Mr.  &  Mrs.  Sidney  Daffner,  41  Cum- 
berland Rd.,  West  Hartford  06119. 

Lucille  Archambault  Parsons  '79,  Coventry, 
R.I.;  Oct.  8.  A  resumed  undergraduate  educa- 
tion (RUE)  student,  she  was  an  instructor  in 
business  administration  at  the  Community 
College  of  Rhode  Island,  Lincoln  and  War- 
wick campuses,  and  a  manager  for  the 
Coventry/West  Warwick  Housing  Consor- 
tium. Survivors  include  her  husband,  Joseph, 
12  Winterberry  Dr.,  Coventry  02816. 

Larry  Josephs  '81,  Freeport,  N.Y.;  Dec.  29,  of 
complications  from  AIDS.  He  was  a  public 
relations  director  of  the  New  York  State  Ur- 
ban Development  Corporation  from  1988  un- 
til July  1991.  Before  that,  he  worked  as  a  re- 
porter at  the  Miami  Herald  in  1983  and  then 
returned  to  the  New  York  Times,  where  he 
had  been  a  news  assistant,  as  a  news  assis- 
tant on  the  editorial  page.  Two  articles  he 
wrote  about  his  battle  with  AIDS  were  pub- 
lished in  The  New  York  Times  Magazine. 
Among  his  survivors  is  his  mother,  Mar- 
garet, 691  Seaman  Ave.,  Baldwin,  N.Y.  11510. 

Iran  Armah  Bachman  '93,  Providence;  Nov. 
2,  of  meningococcemia,  a  bacterial  infection. 
He  was  an  economics  concentrator.  Sur- 
vivors include  his  parents,  Judith  Bachman, 
1 1009  North  Lincoln  Blvd.,  Oklahoma  City, 
Okla.  731 14;  and  Donald  Bachman,  4636 
Misty  Ridge,  Fort  Worth,  Texas  76137.  Q 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  59 


Finally... 


; 


Ninety-eight  percent  wired 


By  Allan  S.  Nanes  '41 


When  my  son,  Bruce,  was  a 
very  young  toddler,  I  some- 
times imagined  that  he  might  follow  my 
father,  my  brother,  and  me  to  Brown. 
However,  by  the  time  he  was  thirty 
months  old  and  still  not  talking,  it  was 
apparent  that  my  dream  would  be  put 
on  hold,  if  not  abandoned  altogether. 

When  a  child  is  a  late  talker,  the  first 
suspect  is  defective  hearing,  but  Bruce's 
checked  out  as  normal.  We  looked  for 
other  explanations,  visiting  a  number  of 
psychiatrists  in  the  process,  over  several 
years.  Finally,  Dr.  Mary  Coleman,  a  spe- 
cialist in  autism  in  Washington,  D.C., 
diagnosed  Bruce  as  autistic.  He  was  six- 
and-a-half  years  old. 

Autism  is  a  complex  developmental 
disability  that  defies  easy  categoriza- 
tion. When  people  ask  me  about  Bruce, 
I  simply  say  that  his  brain  is  wired  to  98 
percent  of  its  capacity,  but  that  a  vital  2 
percent  of  the  circuits  have  not  been 
connected. 

Bruce's  speech  is  slurred,  guttural, 
and  rudimentary.  He  may  shriek  when 


he's  angry.  His  perseveration,  the  seem- 
ingly endless  repetition  of  a  simple  act, 
such  as  putting  on  a  sock,  can  drive  you 
crazy.  Although  he's  now  a  young  man, 
he  likes  to  carry  little  toy  cars  or  airplanes 
in  his  hands.  He  is  considered  moder- 
ately retarded. 

Despite  these  and  other  behavioral 
aberrations,  Bruce  can  be  most  appeal- 
ing. For  one  thing,  he  is  Hollywood 
handsome,  with  a  smile  that  lights  up  a 
room.  He  is  happy  with  simple  plea- 
sures, such  as  eating.  Unlike  most  autis- 
tic people,  he  is  affectionate.  He  has  a 
sly  sense  of  humor  and  laughs  uproari- 
ously if  he  thinks  he's  put  one  over  on 
somebody.  He  reads  at  a  third-grade 
level  and  loves  to  work  at  his  typewrit- 
er. As  my  son-in-law  exclaimed,  in  some 
surprise,  "There's  a  real  person  in  there." 

We've  been  unable  to  keep  Bruce  at 
home  since  he  was  ten  years  old.  He  was 
just  too  much  to  deal  with  on  an  every- 
day basis.  His  placement  in  a  series  of 
residential  facilities  has  been  an  ongoing 
trauma,  one  that  continues  to  this  day- 


He  now  lives  in  Oklahoma,  in  a  facility 
with  a  very  strong  religious  emphasis 
that  has  made  a  lifetime  commitment 
to  his  care. 

Bruce  comes  home  twice  a  year,  at 
Christmas  and  during  the  summer.  We 
used  to  have  him  two  weeks  at  a  time. 
Now  five  days  is  long  enough.  His  visit 
becomes  a  frantic  round  of  activity,  be- 
cause he  must  be  kept  occupied.  I  take 
him  to  action  movies  where,  if  he  can't 
understand  the  dialogue,  he  at  least  ap- 
preciates the  noise  and  movement.  We 
go  bowling  or  to  the  beach,  both  of  which 
take  more  out  of  me  than  they  used  to. 

We  worry  about  his  future  after  we 
die,  even  though  we've  attempted  to 
provide  for  his  needs.  Our  daughter, 
only  eleven  months  older  than  Bruce,  is 
a  fine  and  conscientious  person,  but  her 
life  shouldn't  be  governed  by  Bruce's 
condition. 

Do  I  love  my  son  in  spite  of  the  many 
burdens  his  care  imposes?  Of  course.  Has 
my  life  been  enriched  by  having  an  autis- 
tic child?  It  depends  on  how  you  define 
enrichment. 

In  all  candor,  I  can't  say  that  I  have 
found  the  experience  of  raising  Bruce 
either  ennobling  or  redemptive.  But  he 
has  broadened  my  life  in  a  number  of 
ways.  I  have  gained  a  much  greater  ap- 
preciation than  I  might  otherwise  have 
of  the  humanity  and  potentiality  of  hand- 
icapped individuals.  I  now  have  the  ut- 
most respect  for  those  who  care  for  the 
handicapped  out  of  genuine  love  and 
compassion.  The  people  in  this  field 
labor  in  out-of-the-way  places,  often  for 
low  wages. 

In  addition,  parents  of  autistic  chil- 
dren recognize  a  sense  of  kinship  that 
transcends  all  boundaries  of  race,  reli- 
gion, and  economic  status.  We've  all 
been  there.  We  also  feel  a  commonality 
with  the  parents  of  other  handicapped 
children. 

Most  of  all,  Bruce's  reality  has  com- 
pelled me  to  be  down-to-earth,  and  to 
absorb  well  and  trulv  the  lesson  that 
one  deals  as  best  one  can  with  the  por- 
tion that  life  metes  out.  Meanwhile,  I 
closelv  follow  developments  in  research 
on  autism.  Perhaps  science  will  unlock 
the  mvsterv  of  the  missing  2  percent  - 
if  not  in  my  lifetime,  then  in  Bruce's.  Q 

Allan  Nanes  is  a  retired  college  instructor 
and  researcher/writer  for  Congress,  special- 
izing in  foreign  policy.  He  lives  in  Thou- 
sand Oaks.  California. 


60  /   MARCH  1992 


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and  a  copy  of  Invest  in  Brown  write: 

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Providence,  Rhode  Island  02912 
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Living  through  the  political  upheavals 
that  have  occurred  recently  in  the  Soviet 
Union  is  enthralling  but  also  frighten- 
ing. The  future,  always  difficult  to 
foresee,  is  today  especially  cloudy.  What 
will  be  the  impact  of  the  end  of  the 
cold  war  on  the  economies  of  the  United 
States,  Europe  and  Japan?  Will  interest 
rates  be  affected,  and  in  what  direction? 

If  you  are  like  me,  you  are  so  caught 
up  in  such  global  issues  and  involved 
in  the  activities  of  daily  life,  you  find  it 
difficult  to  make  time  for  your  personal 
affairs.  And  if  you  are  like  me,  you  find, 
on  a  professional  level,  working  every 
day  with  millions  and  trillions  of  dollars 
compelling,  but,  on  a  personal  level, 
working  with  the  dollars  of  your  own 
affairs  dull. 

You  can  salve  your  conscience,  enjoy 
your  daily  pursuits  and  still  earn  a 
competitive  return  (probably  at  lower 
risk  than  if  you  do  your  own  managing) 
by  letting  Brown's  financial  managers 
handle  part  or  all  of  your  investments. 
You  and  your  heirs  will  continue  to 
receive  the  income  from  your  gift  to 
Brown,  but  neither  vou  nor  they  will 
have  to  cope  with  continuous  manage- 
ment. 

And  if  you  are  like  me,  you  will  take 
great  satisfaction  in  repaying  in  small 
part  the  debt  you  feel  you  owe  to 
Brown.  I  recommend  it! 


The  Saab  900  Senes:  From 
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The  Saab  9000  Series:  From 
$25,465  to  $37,615: 

For  more  information,  call 
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They  look  alike  and  drive  alike. 
Camouflaged  by  their  sameness,  they 
vanish  in  parking  lots, 
lost  among  mirror  images 
of  one  another. 

Cars  may  well  be  on 
their  way  toward  becom- 
ing interchangeable.  But 
if  they  ever  get  there, 
they'll  do  so  without  the 
help  of  the  Saab  900,  the  car  no  cookie 
cutter  could  ever  create. 

The  900  is  what  becomes  of  a  car 
when  form  follows  function  instead 
of  fashion. 

Take  its  odd-looking  profile.  That 
vaguely  hunchbacked  shape  houses 
one  of  the  world's  most  protective  steel 
safety  cages.  One  reason  why,  based 
upon  actual  highway  accident  reports, 
the  Saab  900  has  repeatedly  been 

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ranked  among  the  safest  cars  in  its  class. 
That  eccentric  profile  also  houses 
the  largest  carrying  capacity 
in  its  class.  Fold  down  the 
rear  seat,  and  there's  53  cu. 
ft.  of  cargo  space,  rivaling 
some  station  wagons. 

But  nowhere  is  the  dif- 
ference between  conven- 
tional cars  and  a  900  more 


apparent  than  out  on  the  road. 

There,  its  front-engined,  front-wheel- 
drive  system  provides  the  superior  trac- 
tion required  of  a  car  engineered  for 
Swedish  winters.  A  nimble  suspension 
and  tactile  steering  system  unite  car, 
road  and  driver  in  the  same  lively  enter- 
prise,- no  one  was  ever  anesthetized  by  a 
Saab  900. 

Or  shortchanged  on  amenities.  Be- 
sides a  spirited  fuel-injected  engine,  stan- 

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dard  equipment  includes  a  driver's-side 
air  bag,  anti-lock  brakes,  air-condition- 
ing, power  windows,  central  locking — 
even  electrically  heated  front  seats. 

The  result  is  a  complete  car  instead 
of  a  compromise,  combining  rather 
than  choosing  between  the  virtues  of 
safety,  utility,  performance  and  value — 
all  in  a  package  that's  been  described  as, 
well,  idiosyncratic. 

But  then  cars,  like  people,  are  made 
infinitely  more  interesting  by  their 
idiosyncrasies.  A  point  your  Saab  dealer 
will  be  happy  to  prove  through  a  test 
drive  of  the  900. 


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